{ "viewingDirection": "left-to-right", "metadata": [ { "label": "Provenance", "value": "Bought in Vārāṇasī by Colonel Augustus C. Honner in 1860-70." }, { "label": "Extent", "value": "12 ff." }, { "label": "Funding", "value": "AHRC" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "19th century." }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "MS Corpus Christi 33.B.25.3" }, { "label": "Additions", "value": "

Marginalia<\/b><\/p>

Running title (ma°<\/i>), top left margin, verso.<\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Subject(s)", "value": "Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Stotra; Bhākta; Śaiva" }, { "label": "Associated Name(s)", "value": "Honner, Augustus Cotgrave" }, { "label": "Format", "value": "Codex" }, { "label": "Data Source(s)", "value": "Niemann (1983: 5), direct inspection." }, { "label": "Language(s)", "value": "Sanskrit." }, { "label": "Author(s)", "value": "Puṣpadanta; Puṣpadanta" }, { "label": "Alternative Title(s)", "value": "Śivamahimnastava; Mahimnastava; Mahimnaḥpārastotra" }, { "label": "Binding", "value": "

Cardboard cover, library binding.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Condition", "value": "Complete, in good condition." }, { "label": "Script", "value": "

Devanāgārī in black ink.<\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Excerpts", "value": "
Rubric:<\/b> [1v1]<\/a> oṃ śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || <\/div>
Incipit:<\/b> [1v1]<\/a> oṃ mahi[1v2]mnaḥ pāraṃ te paramaviduṣo yady a[1v3]sadṛśī | stutir brahmādīnām a[1v4]pi tadavasannās tvayi giraḥ || [1v5] athāvācyaḥ sarvāḥ svamati[1v6]pariṇāmāvadhi gṛṇan mamā[1v7]py eṣa stotre hara nirapavādaḥ [1v8] parikaraḥ ||<\/div>
Explicit:<\/b> [12r7]<\/a> śrīpuṣpa[12r8]daṃtamukhapaṃkajanirgatena [12r9] stotrena<\/i>(!)<\/i> kilbiṣahareṇa ha[12r10]rapriyeṇa kaṃṭhasthitena pa[12r11]ṭhitena samāhitena || su[12r12]prīṇito bhavati bhūtapati[12v1]<\/a>r maheśaḥ || 40 || <\/div>
Final Rubric:<\/b> [12v1]<\/a> iti śrīpuṣpa || [12v2] daṃtācāryaviracitaṃ mahimnā[12v3]khyāstotraṃ samāptam_ || oṃ || [12v4] śubhaṃ ❈ || ❈ rāma ❈ || ❈ rāma ❈<\/div>" }, { "label": "Physical Location", "value": "Cambridge University Library" }, { "label": "Abstract", "value": "

A 19th century paper manuscript of the famous Śaiva hymn called Mahimnastotra<\/i>, by Puṣpadanta. The manuscript consists of two loose quires, the first one with five bifolia and the second one with one bifolium. Maybe these quires were meant to be bound with quires containing other similar works, thus forming a multi-text manuscript that belongs to a specific typology, of collections of devotional works in codex format with illuminations and an ornate layout, probably common in 19th-century North India (see also Or.1817<\/a> and Or.1818<\/a> and also DD.7.2, an illuminated multi-text devotional manuscript of vaiṣṇava affiliation kept at the Christ's College, Cambridge, and containing the Bhagavadgītā<\/i>, the Viṣṇusahasranāma<\/i>, the Bhīṣmastava<\/i>, the Anusmṛta<\/i>, the Gajendramokṣaṇa<\/i> and the Rāmacandrastavarāja<\/i>.) <\/p>" }, { "label": "Title", "value": "Mahimnastotra" }, { "label": "Author(s) of the Record", "value": "Camillo Formigatti and Daniele Cuneo, CUDL PID Workflow" }, { "label": "Material", "value": "

Paper (watermark on f. 1<\/a>). Folio height: 16.5-16.8 cm, width: 12.5-13.1 cm. <\/p>" }, { "label": "Layout", "value": "

11-14 lines per page.<\/p>

The layout is carefully structured, with the rectangular frame inscribing the written area on f. 1v<\/a> (f. 1r<\/a> has the frame, but no text) and double marginal frame lines in red ink. Each bifolium of the first quire is of paper of different colour (white, yellow, pale green, pale pink and green); daṇḍa<\/i>s in red ink.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Foliation", "value": "

Original: Devanāgarī numerals, top left margin, verso (under running marginal title).<\/p>" }, { "label": "Bibliography", "value": "

Descriptions of the manuscript<\/b><\/p>

Niemann, Grahame, Uncatalogued Indian Manuscripts of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge: the Honner Collection<\/i> Xerographic copy. (Cambridge: University Library, 1983).<\/div><\/div>

Manuscripts<\/b><\/p>

Cambridge, Cambridge University Library: Or.2031<\/a>.<\/div>
NCC: Vol. 19, p. 271-282.<\/div>
NGMCP: 36 mss <\/a>(possibly not all of them containing the same stotra<\/i>).<\/div><\/div>

Edition(s)<\/b><\/p>

Puṣpadanta, 10th cent, The Mahimnastava, or, Praise of Shiva's greatness<\/i>, ed. W. Norman Brown (Poona: American Institute of Indian Studies, 1965) vol. no. 1.<\/div><\/div>

Secondary Literature<\/b><\/p>

NCC = Raghavan, V. (Venkatarama), K. Kunjunni Raja, N. Veezhinathan and Theodor Aufrecht, New Catalogus Catalogorum. An Alphabetical Register of Sanskrit and Allied Works and Authors.<\/i>, Madras University Sanskrit series (Madras: University of Madras, 1949).<\/div><\/div>
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