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Śrīsūkta, circa 1700-1850.
श्रीसूक्त
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2740
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Lakshmī (Hindu deity).
- Lakshmī.
- Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
- Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
- Genre:
- prayers (compositions)
- hymns
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (3 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 21 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2740
- 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. 3r).
- Written in 6-7 lines per leaf.
- 3 leaves foliated 1-2, [3], lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti śrīsūktasamāptaṃ // (f. 3r).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
- 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 36 (UP 2740).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2740.
- OCLC:
- 976178275
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