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Title

Authors

• Appayya Dīkṣita

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963513413503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/903208353
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6351341

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript is used for meditation, contemplation, and recitation and its text, a praise of the Hindu deity Śiva, is the product of a hallucinogenic experience. The poet, an Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta philosopher writing from a Śaiva perspective, consumed a drug which is derived from the datura plant, known to be especially sacred to Śiva.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 9v).
   
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
   
• 9 leaves foliated 1-9, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1909 (1852) (f. 9v).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Datura--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Advaita
• Vedanta
• Śaivism
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Hindu philosophy
• Philosophy, Indic

Genres

• Prayers
• Poems
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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