Ātmārapaṇastuti, circa 1700-1799; आत्मारपणस्तुति,१७००-१७९९

Name:

Appayya Dīkṣita

Date:

1700

Description:

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.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Poems; Prayers; Hymns; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts

Physical Description:

1 item (4 leaves) : paper; 11 x 25 cm

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

South Indian follower of the Advaita Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy from a Śaiva-siddhānta perspective, living 1520-1593.; 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.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts