Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Appayya Dīkṣita

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957945023503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/800667778
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5794502

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript used in private or public recitation and prayer focused on the veneration and praise of the Hindu deity Śiva. A mystical text of 50 verses considered to have been written when the author Appayya Dīkṣita was intoxicated. Opening benediction is to Śiva rather than Gaṇeśa, as is common in Sanskrit manuscripts.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 4v).
   
• Written in 10-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; colophon written upside down in the upper top margin; formerly housed with Item 3039.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Śaivism
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Mysticism--Hinduism
• Ecstasy (Hinduism)
• Drugs--Religious aspects--Hinduism

Genres

• Poems
• Prayers
• Hymns
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

Licenses

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