Details

Other Title:

Maṇikarṇikāṣṭakastotra.

Subjects:

Bathing customs.
Siva (Hindu deity).
Pilgrims and pilgrimages -- India.
Pilgrims and pilgrimages.
India.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Bathing customs -- Religious aspects.
Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India).

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Prayers.
Hymns.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Text attributed to the eighth-century Vedanta philosopher Śakarācārya, though some scholars hold that he did not compose such texts of praise (stotras).

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.
Colophon: iti śrīmacchaṃkarācāryaviracitaṃ maṇikarṇikāṣṭakaṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // oṃ śrīmaṇikarṇikādevyarpaṇam astu // (f. 2v).
Dated saṃvat 1886 and śaka 1751 (1829) (f. 2v).
Vertical margins marked with double red line.
Non-Latin script record.

Cited in:

Listed in H. I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 1801 (UP 460).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 460

OCLC:

809265352