Two Śaṅkara stotras, circa 1700-1850.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Śaṅkarācārya, attributed name.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Hindu philosophy.

Philosophy, Indic.

Genre:

poems

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (5 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 27 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1252

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Two short stotras, devotional poems that often have a didactic purpose, attributed by tradition but not necessarily by modern scholarship to the medieval philosopher Śaṅkarācārya.

Contents:

Praśnottararatnamālikā (f. 1r-4v)

Sopānapaṃcaka (f. 4v-5v).

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.

5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.

Final colophon: iti śrīmatparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryaśrīmacchaṃkarācāryaviracitaṃ sopānapaṃcakaṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // (f. 5v).

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.

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 1797 (UP 1252).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1252

Contains:

Praśnottararatnamālikā.

Sopānapaṃcaka.

OCLC:

905000684