Details

Other Title:

Maṇikarṇikāṣṭaka

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Hymns (documents)
Prayers (documents).
Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Attributed to Śaṅkarācārya, but likely written by one of his followers.

Summary:

Small manuscript for personal use, praising Maṇikarṇika, the famous bathing site especially sacred to the deity Śiva along the Ganges river in the sacred Hindu pilgrimage center, Vārāṇasī. Opens with the second verse of the text as seen in other manuscripts (for example, Ms. Coll. 390, Item 460).

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 2v); alternate title Maṇikarṇikāṣṭaka supplied by cataloger.
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
Colophon: iti śrīmacchaṃkarācāryaviracitaṃ maṇikarṇikāṣṭakastotraṃ saṃpurṇam // śrīkāśiviśveśvarārpaṇam astu // (f. 2v).

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 1802 (UP 2518).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2518.

OCLC:

968933164