Details

Subjects:

Śaivism.
Siva (Hindu deity).
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Mysticism -- Hinduism.
Ecstasy (Hinduism).
Drugs -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

South Indian follower of the Advaita Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy from a Śaiva-siddhānta perspective, living 1520-1593.

Summary:

Manuscript used in private or public recitation and prayer focused on the veneration and praise of the Hindu deity Śiva. A mystical text of 50 verses considered to have been written when the author Appayya Dīkṣita was intoxicated. Opening benediction is to Śiva rather than Gaṇeśa, as is common in Sanskrit manuscripts.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 4v).
Written in 10-12 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīmadadvaitācāryaśrīmadappayyadīkṣitaviracitā ātmārpaṇastutiḥ samāptā / (f. 4v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; colophon written upside down in the upper top margin; formerly housed with Item 3039.
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 1680 (UP 2273).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2273

OCLC:

800665876