Śivarahasya, circa 1700-1850.
शिवरहस्य

Format:

Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Tantrism.

Śaivism.

Śiva (Hindu deity).

Śiva.

Śiva (Hindu deity).

Worship (Hinduism).

Puja (Hinduism).

Durgā (Hindu deity).

Durgā.

Shaktism.

Lingas (Śaivism).

Annapūrṇā (Hindu deity).

Annapūrṇā.

Rites and ceremonies--India.

Rites and ceremonies.

India.

Hindu goddesses.

Genre:

prayers (compositions)

manuals (instructional materials)

treatises

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (27 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 28 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2731

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Seven sections of a larger Tantric treatise and manual on Śaiva ritual and worship containing seven different sections on different topics including Śiva pūja, Liṅga pūja, Pārthiva pūja (worship of an earthen liṅga), and worship of feminine forms of divinity such as Śakti and Dūrgā (in the form of Annapūrṇā).

Notes:

Title from internal colophon (Part 1, f. 3r).

Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.

27 leaves foliated (Part 1) 1-3, (Part 2) 1-3, (Part 3) 1-5, (Part 4) 1-5, (Part 5) 1-2, (Part 6) 1-3, (Part 7) 1-6, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrīśivarahasye ekonatriṃśādhyāye annapūrṇastotraṃ saṃpūrṇam śrī (Part 1, f. 3r).

Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some phrases written in red.

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 4623 and 4628 (UP 2731).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2731.

OCLC:

974381564