Nīrālamvastava circa 1750-1899

Contributor:

Śaṅkarācārya (attributed name)

Date:

1750

Description:

Work of praise (stava) and devotion meant to be recited, but drawing on broad philosophical themes and attributed to the Hindu philosopher Śaṅkarācārya, but likely written by a follower of Advaita. The end of the Narasiṃhakavaca is found at the beginning of the manuscript (f. 1r), suggesting that this stava was once part of a larger manuscript.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Advaita; Hindu philosophy; Philosophy, Indic; Devotional literature, Sanskrit

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Treatises; Poems; Facsimiles; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts

Physical Description:

1 online resource (4 leaves) : illustrations

Rights:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Rights Note:

Reproduced from the original with permission of the Mahesh Charitable Trust under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license.

Notes:

Written in 5-7 lines per folio.; 4 leaves foliated 1-4, middle right verso; there are two photos of cover made of particle board.; Title from colophon (f. 4r); title of second work from front of manuscript (f. 1r).; Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.; Material of the manuscript is wood or bark.; Dimensions of original manuscript: 8 x 20 cm.; Reproduced from the original with permission of the Mahesh Charitable Trust under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license.; In Sanskrit (Bengali)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Rāmamālā Library 1470