Śrīsūkta, circa 1700-1850.
श्रीसूक्त

Format:

• Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Vedas--Recitation.
• Vedas.
• Lakshmī (Hindu deity).
• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Genre:

• prayers (compositions)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
• Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (6 leaves) : paper ; 8 x 16 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2024

Place of Publication:

• circa 1700-1850.
• १७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

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 title page (f. 1r).
• Written in 6 lines per leaf.
• 6 leaves foliated 1-6, upper left and lower right verso.
• Mistakes blacked out; metrical accents to help in recitation in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.

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 33 (UP 2024).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2024.

OCLC:

954472949