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

Title

Authors

• Śaṅkarācārya

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959369663503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/838607780
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5936966

Publisher

Language

Summary

Manuscript to be used for consultation, performing rituals, or recitation is a Tantric work of Śaivism, possibly connected to Śaivasiddhanta and though attributed to Śaṅkara is not likely by that 9th century author given its highly specialized language , especially the references to Śaktism, or feminine, universal energy, which became widespread and systematized philosophical concepts in later periods. Manuscript also contains descriptions and lists of mantras to be recited and employed in Tantric rites of worship (pūjā).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 22v).
   
• Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
   
• 22 leaves foliated 1-22, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1800 and śaka 1666 (1744) (f. 22v).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some syllables, words, or phrases and verse numbers highlighted in red ; vertical margins marked with double red line filled with yellow and third red line along vertical edge.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Puja (Hinduism)
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Śaivism
• Tantrism
• Hindu philosophy

Genres

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

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