Rudra, before 1856.
रुद्र

Format:

Manuscript

Standardized Title:

Vedas. Yajurveda. Kr̥ṣṇayajurveda (Taittirīyasaṃhitā). Rudrādhyāya

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Śaivism.

Rudra (Hindu deity).

Rudra.

Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.

Genre:

prayers (compositions)

hymns

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (18 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 19 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2032

Other Title:

Śatarudrīya

Place of Publication:

before 1856.

before १८५६.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Vedic hymns praising the deity Rudra (the howler) a Vedic precedent for the Hindu deity Śiva. Text is often referred to as the Śatarudrīya or 100 Rudras.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r); alternate title Śatarudrīya supplied by cataloger.

Written in 7 lines per leaf.

18 leaves foliated 1-18, upper left and lower right verso.

Dated saṃvat 1913 (1856) (f. 18v), but dated in a second scribal hand likely after the manuscript was originally written and possibly by a former owner.

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins, many in a second scribal hand; opening phrase highlighted in red; metrical accents in red and black throughout to aid in recitation.

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 3474 (UP 2032).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2032.

OCLC:

956706345