Ātmārpaṇastuti, 1852.
आत्मार्पणस्तुति

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Appayya Dīkṣita

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Datura--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Datura.

Advaita.

Vedanta.

Śaivism.

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Hindu philosophy.

Philosophy, Indic.

Genre:

prayers (compositions)

poems

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (9 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 28 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1180

Place of Publication:

1852.

१८५२.

Language Note:

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