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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957784103503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/796042000
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5778410

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Summary

Collection of hymns, mantras, and praises to the Sun god (Āditya also called Sūrya) used for private or public recitation, meditation, and prayer. presented as a conversation between the legendary prince Arjuna and the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
   
• 28 leaves foliated 1-28, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated śake 1816 (1894) (f. 27v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout. Edges of manuscript have a rounded pattern cut.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Provenance

• From the city of Vārānasī (f. 27v).
   

Subjects topical

• Sūrya (Hindu deity)
• Sun worship
• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit
• Hinduism--Prayers and devotions
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Arjuna (Hindu mythology)
• Krishna (Hindu deity)

Genres

• Poems
• Prayers
• Hymns
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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