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Title

Śivarahasya
शिवरहस्य

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2001
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9970480093503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/953736761
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7048009

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript begins with the third adhyāya of the Śivarayasya, a purāṇic-style work. Text highlights the veneration of Śiva through ritual, prayer and reference to pilgrimage (especially to Kāśī, the city of Vārāṇasī). Manuscript contains four short supplementary works after the main text that are summations and brief commentary-like illuminations of the Śivarahasya such as the Śivarahasyasāraprakāśa (Part 5).

Notes

• Title from incipit (Part 1, f. 1r); title of commentary Śivarahasyasāraprakāśa from colophon (Part 5, f. 4v).
   
• Written in 5-8 lines per leaf.
   
• 109 leaves foliated (Part 1) 1-82, (Part 2) 1-3, (Part 3) 1-9, (Part 4) 1-3, 5-11, [12], (Part 5) 1-4, lower right verso.
   
• Dated śaka 1774 (1862) (Part 5, f. 4v).
   
• Watermarks of some kind of coat of arms on some folios in the first half of the text.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; numerous corrections and additions in margins; significant words and phrases highlighted in red.
   

Extent

1 item (109 leaves) : 14 x 26 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīsahasrabudhyupākṛvināyakasūrisūnusadāśivolītaśivarahasyasāraprakāśaḥ // śake 1772 māghakṛṣṇa daśamī // (Part 5, f. 4v).

Subjects topical

• Hinduism--Prayers and devotions
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Śaivism

Genres

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

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