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Title

Authors

• Śaṅkarācārya

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9973908223503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/968933164
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7390822

Publisher

Language

Summary

Small manuscript for personal use, praising Maṇikarṇika, the famous bathing site especially sacred to the deity Śiva along the Ganges river in the sacred Hindu pilgrimage center, Vārāṇasī. Opens with the second verse of the text as seen in other manuscripts (for example, Ms. Coll. 390, Item 460).

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 2v); alternate title Maṇikarṇikāṣṭaka supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
   
• 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Śaivism
• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Pilgrims and pilgrimages--India
• Bathing customs--India

Genres

• Hymns (documents)
• Prayers (documents)
• Poems
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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