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

Title

Authors

• Śaṅkarācārya

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958213863503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/809272587
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5821386

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Language

Summary

Small manuscript for personal use, praising the famous bathing site along the Ganges river in the sacred Hindu pilgrimage center, Vārāṇasī, called Maṇikarṇika; especially sacred to the deity Śiva.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 2v); alternate title Maṇikarṇikāṣṭakastotra supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 10 lines per leaf.
   
• 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1886 and śaka 1751 (1829) (f. 2v).
   
• Vertical margins marked with double red line.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

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

Genres

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

Licenses

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