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Title

Padapāṭha.
पदपाठ

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2027
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9970677773503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/954473420
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7067777

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript using the padapāṭha method of recitation, which presents the first four chapters of one version of the hymns of the Ṛgveda broken into individual words and without regard for saṃdhi rules that typically connect Sanskrit words. The hymns follow the order of chapters 1, 20, 33, and 47 of other editions of the text. The hymns are dedicated to Vedic gods such as Agni, Indra, and the Aśvin twins. The work also includes an unidentified commentary before each section of the Ṛgveda.

Notes

• Title from title abbreviations in margins; alternate title Rg̣vedapadapāṭha supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 7-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 69 leaves foliated 1-69, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins in black and red; metrical accents in red; some vertical margins marked with triple red line; some folios treated with yellow turmeric powder.
   

Extent

1 item (69 leaves) : 11 x 23 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti caturtho 'dhyāyaḥ // padasaṃkhyā // 2575 // (f. 69).

Subjects topical

• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit
• Indra (Hindu deity)
• Agni (Hindu deity)
• Aśvins (Hindu deities)

Genres

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

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