Details

Subjects:

Siva (Hindu deity).
Shaktism.
Lingas (Śaivism).
Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages -- India.
Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages.
India.
Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India).

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Son or pupil of Śivānanda Sarasvatī (16v).

Summary:

Commentary (ṭika) on a secret or esoteric doctrine about the pilgrimage center of Vārānasi especially with respect to its alternative name Pañcākrośa. Manuscript names different places of worship, temples, names of deities (e.g., Viśveśvara) and is particularly concerned with the Hindu deity Śiva as well as the god's consort in the form of Śakti and with liṅga worship. Work may derive from the Brahmavaivartapurāṇa.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 4v).
Written in 13-15 lines per leaf.
16 leaves foliated 1-16, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmatparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryaśrīśivānaṃdasarasvatīpūjyapādaśiṣyeṇa nīlakaṃṭhasarasvatīvracitāyāṃkāśīrahasyaṭhīkāyāṃvyākhyāyāṃ setudaṃdhābhiddhāyāṃṣaḍviṃś[o] 'dhyāye kāśīsaraṇavicāraniryaḥrṇasamāptaḥ // kāśīrahasya graṃthasaṃkhyā // 5300 // śrīkāśīviśveśvarārpaṇam astu // saṃvat 1969 bhādravadya 4 śanausamāptaṃ // om̐tatsadbrahmārpaṇam astu // (f. 16v).
Dated saṃvat 1969 (1912) (f. 16v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
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 1150 (UP 327).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 327

OCLC:

781861254