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Puruṣasūkta, circa 1700-1850.
पुरुषसूक्त

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Format:
Manuscript
Contributor:
Nārāyaṇadeva, scribe.
Standardized Title:
Vedas. R̥gveda. Puruṣasūkta
Language:
Sanskrit
Subjects (All):
Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
Genre:
hymns
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.
Physical Description:
1 item (4 leaves) : paper ; 8 x 16 cm
Contained In:
Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 3035
Place of Publication:
circa 1700-1850.
१७००-१८५०.
Language Note:
In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
Summary:
Hymn to the cosmic man (puruṣa), from the Ṛgveda.
Notes:
Title from title pages (f. 1r, 4v).
Written in 10 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: svahastena likhitaṃ nārāyaṇadevena śubhaṃbhavatu / (f. 4r).
Mistakes blacked out, some corrections in margins, text highlighted in red throughout, vertical margins marked with double red line, accents given throughout.
Scribe is Nārāyaṇadeva (f. 4r).
Item 3035 was formerly housed as part 1 of Item 79.
Non-Latin script record.
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 20 (described in Poleman as part of H 79; UP 3035).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 3035
OCLC:
756045636

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