Manuscript used for private or public recitation and prayer in praise of the river Sarasvatī personified by the Hindu goddess of the same name. Manuscript has two parts, the first, in ten verses, is a short Vedic hymn (sūkta) to Sarasvatī and the second is a praise text (stotra) to the same goddess.; (Part 1) Sarasvatīsūkta -- (Part 2) Sarasvatīstotra.
Poems; Prayers; Hymns; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts; Devotional literature
Physical Description:
1 item (8 leaves) : paper; 10 x 18 cm
Geographic Subject:
Saraswati River (India)
Rights:
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Notes:
Title from colophon (f. 8r); second title Sarasvatīsūkta from internal colophon.; Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.; 8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.; Colophon: iti āśvalāyanakṛtaṃ daśaślokīsarasvatīstotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // śubham astu // saṃvat 1805 / mādhaśukla 15 maṃdavāra / pramāthīnāmasaṃvatsare // (f. 8r).; Dated saṃvat 1805 mādhaśukla 15 (Sunday, February 2, 1749) (f. 8r).; Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; accents and verse dividers indicated with red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390
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