Saurasūkta, 1873.
सौरसूक्त

Format:

Manuscript

Standardized Title:

Vedas. R̥gveda. Saurasūkta.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Sūrya (Hindu deity).

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Gods, Vedic.

Vedic literature.

Genre:

hymns

prayers (compositions)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (10 leaves) : paper ; 18 x 9 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 15

Place of Publication:

1873.

१८७३.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgari)

Summary:

Ṛgvedic hymns dedicated to the Vedic deity Sūrya, the sun, transmitted as an independent text of praise to be employed in personal or public meditation and prayer.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 10v).

Written in 7 lines per leaf.

10 leaves foliated 1-10, upper left and lower right verso.

Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; marginal notes and corrections; double vertical red lines delineate margins; accented in red.

Colophon: iti saurasūktaḥ samāptaḥ // saṃvat 1930 jyeṣṭhaśuddha 14 iṃduvāra anurādhābhesamāpatm idam // (f. 10v).

Dated saṃvat 1930 (1873) (f. 10v).

Cited in:

Listed in H. I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 32 (UP 15).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 15

OCLC:

155918854