Details

Subjects:

Datura -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Advaita.
Vedanta.
Śaivism.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Hindu philosophy.
Philosophy, Indic.

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for meditation, contemplation, and recitation and its text, a praise of the Hindu deity Śiva, is the product of a hallucinogenic experience. The poet, an Advaita (non-dualism) Vedānta philosopher writing from a Śaiva perspective, consumed a drug which is derived from the datura plant, known to be especially sacred to Śiva.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 9v).
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
9 leaves foliated 1-9, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmadadvaitācāryaśrīmadappaiyyadīkṣitaviracitā ātmārpaṇasstutiḥ saṃpūrṇatāmagamat // śrīśivaśivā 'arpaṇam astu // mi - mārga - śu - 8 śanau saṃ[vat] - 1909 (f. 9v).
Dated saṃvat 1909 (1852) (f. 9v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

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 1679 (UP 1180).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1180

OCLC:

903208354