Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

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• bibid: 9970783963503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/956706345
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7078396

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Summary

Vedic hymns praising the deity Rudra (the howler) a Vedic precedent for the Hindu deity Śiva. Text is often referred to as the Śatarudrīya or 100 Rudras.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r); alternate title Śatarudrīya supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
   
• 18 leaves foliated 1-18, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1913 (1856) (f. 18v), but dated in a second scribal hand likely after the manuscript was originally written and possibly by a former owner.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins, many in a second scribal hand; opening phrase highlighted in red; metrical accents in red and black throughout to aid in recitation.
   

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Subjects topical

• Śaivism
• Rudra (Hindu deity)
• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit

Genres

• Prayers
• Hymns (documents)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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