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

Title

Authors

• Āśvalāyana

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959371393503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/838637513
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5937139

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript used for private or public recitation and prayer in praise of the river Sarasvatī personified by the Hindu goddess of the same name. Manuscript has two parts, the first, in ten verses, is a short Vedic hymn (sūkta) to Sarasvatī and the second is a praise text (stotra) to the same goddess.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 8r); second title Sarasvatīsūkta from internal colophon.
   
• Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
   
• 8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1805 mādhaśukla 15 (Sunday, February 2, 1749) (f. 8r).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; accents and verse dividers indicated with red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hinduism--Prayers and devotions
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit
• Hindu goddesses
• Sarasvatī (Hindu deity)
• Rivers--Religious aspects--Hinduism

Genres

• Poems
• Prayers
• Hymns
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

Licenses

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