Details

Subjects:

Tantrism.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Prayers.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a version of the Wave of beauty (Saundarylaharī), configured as a praise (stotra) work, and is also a poetic and Tantric contemplative work, traditionally attributed to the 8th-century Sanskrit philosopher Śaṅkara.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 37r).
Written in 6 lines per leaf.
37 leaves foliated 1-37, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmachaṃkarācāryaviracitaṃ sauṃdaryyalaharīstotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // śake 1638 darmukhanāmasaṃvatsare // vaiśākhaśuddhatrayodaśyāṃ iduvārena likhitam idaṃ pustakaṃ samāptimagamat // śrī rastū // śubhaṃ bhavatu // śrīśaṃkarārpaṇamastū // (f. 37r-37v).
Dated śaka 1638 (1716) (f. 37v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line; some folios are blue.

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 1820 (UP 2478).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2478

OCLC:

867636895