Maṇikarṇikāṣṭaka, circa 1829.
मणिकर्णिकाष्ट

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Śaṅkarācārya, attributed name.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Bathing customs.

Śiva (Hindu deity).

Śiva.

Śiva (Hindu deity).

Pilgrims and pilgrimages--India.

Pilgrims and pilgrimages.

India.

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Bathing customs--Religious aspects.

Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India).

Genre:

poems

prayers (compositions)

hymns

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 17 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 460

Other Title:

Maṇikarṇikāṣṭakastotra.

Place of Publication:

circa 1829.

१८२९.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Text attributed to the eighth-century Vedanta philosopher Śakarācārya, though some scholars hold that he did not compose such texts of praise (stotras).

Summary:

Small manuscript for personal use, praising the famous bathing site along the Ganges river in the sacred Hindu pilgrimage center, Vārāṇasī, called Maṇikarṇika; especially sacred to the deity Śiva.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2v); alternate title Maṇikarṇikāṣṭakastotra supplied by cataloger.

Written in 10 lines per leaf.

2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrīmacchaṃkarācāryaviracitaṃ maṇikarṇikāṣṭakaṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // oṃ śrīmaṇikarṇikādevyarpaṇam astu // (f. 2v).

Dated saṃvat 1886 and śaka 1751 (1829) (f. 2v).

Vertical margins marked with double red line.

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 1801 (UP 460).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 460

OCLC:

809265352