Śrīsūkta, circa 1700-1850.
श्रीसूक्त

Format:

• Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Lakshmī (Hindu deity).
• 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