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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9970676603503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/954472949
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7067660

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Summary

Hymn praising Lakṣmī (known as Śrī), the goddess of wealth. Part of a group of texts appended to the Ṛgveda known as the khila (filling in gaps and considered apocryphal), not found in the original text but thought to be very early.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 6 lines per leaf.
   
• 6 leaves foliated 1-6, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; metrical accents to help in recitation in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   

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Subjects topical

• Lakshmi (Hindu deity)
• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit

Genres

• Prayers
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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