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Title

Authors

• Sāyaṇa, -1387

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9970656633503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/954003943
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7065663

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Summary

Treatise and commentary on the hymn called Puruṣasūkta (Hymn to Man) from the Ṛgveda. The colophon suggests that the commentary of the hymn will help to clear away darkness with respect to the Vedas and is part of a standard signature ending to the R̥gvedabhāṣya (or R̥gvedabhāṣyabhūmikā) by the 14th-century author Sāyaṇa, the brother of the Mīmāmsā philosopher Mādhva, to whom the text is dedicated and alludes (though not in name). The root text (the hymn) is highlighted in red throughout the manuscript.

Notes

• Title from title abbreviation in margins.
   
• Written in 13 lines per leaf.
   
• 5 leaves foliated 20-23, [24], upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with triple red line.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu hymns
• Human sacrifice--Hinduism
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit

Genres

• Commentaries
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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