Mahānayaprakāśa of Śitikaṇṭha, with Sanskrit commentary
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- Catalogue identifier
- kali-fifty4-007
- Alternate titles and import identifiers
- KALI-50B4-007
- Author or attribution
- Rājānaka Śitikaṇṭha; edited by Mukundarāma Śāstrī; electronic corrections by Mark S. G. Dyczkowski
- Record type
- Scripture
- Language
- Apabhraṃśa / Sanskrit
- Date / edition
- 1918 print edition; 2006 electronic revision
- Source / repository
- Muktabodha — M00033
- Access
- Open access
- Subjects
- 50 Full-Text Sources — Batch 4, November 2026; Scholarship and historical studies
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This is the complete fourteen-section text attributed to Śitikaṇṭha, accompanied by Sanskrit commentary and institutional editorial corrections. It presents the Great Way through the goddess, cycles of manifestation and withdrawal, modes of awareness and the relationship between embodied experience and sacred space. The verse text and prose explanations allow readers to examine the same teaching in two linguistic registers. A representative middle passage follows the divine power through sensory activity and the appropriation of perceived objects; the closing sections return to the unity underlying the various cycles. Its treatment of Kali belongs to the specialized Krama tradition, not simply to a general narrative of the Bengali goddess. The verse language was historically described as Old Kashmiri, while recent scholarship argues for Apabhraṃśa. Users should retain that distinction and consult the scholarly debate. This institutional text is based on the 1918 printed edition with later corrections, not a newly dated medieval manuscript. Visible textual gaps remain part of the record.
Curator source KALI-50B4-007. Scholarship and historical studies. Research supplement dated 5 November 2026.
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07. Mahānayaprakāśa of Śitikaṇṭha, with Sanskrit commentary
Author/editor: Rājānaka Śitikaṇṭha; edited by Mukundarāma Śāstrī; electronic corrections by Mark S. G. Dyczkowski | 1918 print edition; 2006 electronic revision
Type / language: Complete institutional electronic transcription of historical text | Apabhraṃśa verses and Sanskrit commentary (IAST)
This is the complete fourteen-section text attributed to Śitikaṇṭha, accompanied by Sanskrit commentary and institutional editorial corrections. It presents the Great Way through the goddess, cycles of manifestation and withdrawal, modes of awareness and the relationship between embodied experience and sacred space. The verse text and prose explanations allow readers to examine the same teaching in two linguistic registers. A representative middle passage follows the divine power through sensory activity and the appropriation of perceived objects; the closing sections return to the unity underlying the various cycles. Its treatment of Kali belongs to the specialized Krama tradition, not simply to a general narrative of the Bengali goddess. The verse language was historically described as Old Kashmiri, while recent scholarship argues for Apabhraṃśa. Users should retain that distinction and consult the scholarly debate. This institutional text is based on the 1918 printed edition with later corrections, not a newly dated medieval manuscript. Visible textual gaps remain part of the record.
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Rājānaka Śitikaṇṭha; edited by Mukundarāma Śāstrī; electronic corrections by Mark S. G. Dyczkowski. Mahānayaprakāśa of Śitikaṇṭha, with Sanskrit commentary. Muktabodha — M00033. 1918 print edition; 2006 electronic revision. https://muktalib7.com/DL_CATALOG_ROOT/MUKTABODHA-LIBRARY-IAST/mahAnayaprakAza-M00033-IAST.txt
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