Śaivabhūṣaṇa
Metadata
Bundle No.
RE20062
Type
Manuscrit
Subject
Śaiva, Śaivasiddhānta, Āgama, Nibandha
Language
Sanskrit
Creator
a_lakiyasundare"svaran
Date Created
2009-2010
Source
Institut Français de Pondichéry
License
Key
manuscripts_004755
Manuscript No.
RE20062a
Title Alternate Script
शैवभूषण
Subject Description
Language
Script
Scribe
Aḻakiyasundareśvaran
Type
Manuscript
Material
Condition
Damaged
Manuscript Extent
Incomplete
Folios in Text
17
Folio Range of Text
1a - 17b
Lines per Side
6 - 7
Folios in Bundle
51
Width
3 cm
Length
24.7 cm
Bundle No.
RE20062
Other Texts in Bundle
Miscellaneous Notes
The same as Cat. no. 194.4. The present text is incomplete as it ends with verse no. 75( no. 124 of the printed edition). The fly-leaf "a" gives the number of verses in the siddhāntasāravali and the śaivabhūṣaṇa as found in this bundel; an unnumbered fol. between [37] and [38] has some verses requesting readers to overlook the scribal errors; fol. [49a], fragments of bālasthāpana; fol. [50] has some domestic accounts in Tamil
Manuscript Beginning
'suklāmbaradharaṃ viṣṇuṃ śaśivarṇaṃ catur bhujaṃ। prasannavadanaṃ dhyāyet sarvavighnopaśāntaye। natvā śaṃkaram ambikāṃ gaṇapatiṃ skandañ ca nadīśvaram। tat paścāt samayān vidhāryanivahān mad bodhakaṃ deśikam। nānāvarṇavicitraśabdaracanāhemnā tulāgāminā śaivānāṃ kriyate śivāgamavacoratnāñcitaṃ bhūṣaṇam।1।
Manuscript Ending
annaṃ grāsam idaṃ[mitaṃ?] phalan tu catur aṅgulyāyatamuṣṭito mānaṃ mūlam apūpavargam ucitaṃ.......ḍyathā khaṇḍaśaḥ। gandhāś cātra caṇopamaṃ tu gula tat khaṇḍaṃ badaryasthivat gukkulyādi ca kāmikoktam iti vā niṣkapramāṇaṃ ghṛtaṃ।75।
Bibliography
Printed under the title: caivapūṣaṇam in Grantha script and Tamil commentary, ed. by K. M. Cuppiramaṇiya Cāstri, pub. at civākama cittānta paripālana caṅkattār, 1925. See SAIVA-SIDDH 0030, IN 11137, RE 6298
Catalog Entry Status
Complete
No. in Descriptive Catalog
394.1
Key
manuscripts_004755
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Cite as
Śaivabhūṣaṇa,
in Digital Collections, Institut Français de Pondichéry,
Manuscripts of the Indology Collection,
consulted on September, 11th 2025, https://digitalcollections.ifpindia.org/s/manuscripts/item/381904