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

Title

Other related names

• Sahasrabuddha, Viṣṇuśāstri, scribe

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9970784073503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/956708680
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7078407

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Language

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 colophon (f. 4v).
   
• Written in 7-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; metrical accents in red throughout for recitation.
   
• Scribe is Viṣṇuśāstri Sahasrabuddha, son of Vināyaka Sahasrabuddha (f. 4v).
   
• Watermarks of a coat of arms with a partial name including the letters M, O, and possibly C or G.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

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

Genres

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

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