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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9970784033503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/956708162
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7078403

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Summary

Vedic hymn to the Night (rātri) personified as a goddess. Verses taken from the Ṛgveda.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 13v).
   
• Written in 6-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 13 leaves foliated 1-13, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; metrical accents in red for recitation; vertical margins marked with double black line.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Night--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit
• Hindu goddesses

Genres

• Prayers
• Hymns (documents)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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