Śrīsūkta, circa 1700-1850.
श्रीसूक्त

Format:

• Manuscript

Contributor:

• Sahasrabuddha, Viṣṇuśāstri, scribe.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

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

Genre:

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

Physical Description:

1 item (4 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 15 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2036

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 colophon (f. 4v).
• Written in 7-9 lines per leaf.
• 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
• Colophon: it[i] zrī śrīsūkta saṃpūrṇam astu // (f. 4v).
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; metrical accents in red throughout for recitation.
• Scribe is Viṣṇuśāstri Sahasrabuddha, son of Vināyaka Sahasrabuddha (f. 4v).
• Watermarks of a coat of arms with a partial name including the letters M, O, and possibly C or G.

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 34 (UP 2036).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2036.

OCLC:

956708680