Shaivacintamani (analytical study)
by Swati Sucharita Pattanaik | 2022 | 84,311 words
This is an English study of the Shaivacintamani—an unstudied text on Shaiva or Shiva worship by Lakshmidhara Mishra, written in the late 17th century and edited for the first time in 1994 by Shri Dukhisyam Pattanaik from the Orissa State Museum. The present research aims to offer a comprehensive study of the Saivacintamani, filling the knowledge ga...
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The text ŚԳ峾ṇi was taken up for editing in the year 1969 by Odisha State Museum. At the outset as an auspicious beginning of the “Orissan Oriental Text Series� (in Sanskrit) with a view to editing all the rare and valuable manuscripts of Orissan authors Preserved in the Orissa State Museum, presently called Śrī Jayadeva Orissa State Museum, Bhubaneswar. In addition, Bhubaneswar being the cathedral city and famous seat of Saivism, it was considered necessary to edit the ŚԳ峾ṇi, followed in the performance of worship & rituals in Liṅgarāja temple as an authoritative guide book. The palm-leaf manuscripts of the ŚԳ峾ṇi are locally available in plenty of the manuscripts collected from different areas and preserved in the Orissa State museum, and were selected a dozen manuscripts for the purpose of editing.
The text ŚԳ峾ṇi written by ṣmī Ѿś is text on Ś worship prevalent in Odisha. His timing was last part of 17th century. The text is a new one in the Saiva Ritual tradition. He was also the author of the Śkalpadruma. ṣmī’s Śkalpadruma (Dh.33) preserved in the ٳśٰ section of the Odisha State Museum. Which is being followed even now by the Odissan priest. The text ŚԳ峾ṇi has been first time edited by Shri Dukhisyam Pattanaik from Orissa State Museum in the year 1994. This was possible by the editor by collecting manuscripts from Odisha, Chennai and Kollkatta. Before this edition it was not publish elsewhere. The text is completely new and hasn’t been translated to any language till today. On this text absolutely there is no research work done so far. There is no commentary available on this text. There are 8 chapters called patalas describing various types of rituals worships along with their traditions prevalent at 峾 ṣeٰ.
This text is not encoded in any bibliography of Sanskrit Literature till today. Nobody has written any research paper on this text even today. There is no research thesis available on this topic in the Sodhaganga web portal. There is no review of Paper on this text so far. Hence it is quite new to the area of research.
The text has not come to limelight so far for which I want to undertake this topic for my study. This text will highlight the significance of ŚԳ峾ṇi to the world of scholars.