Vāruṇapaddhati/Ātmārthapūjāpaddhati

The MS from which this transcript was copied appears (from the final invocations) to have been written in or near Tirunelveli and belongs to Sivasri Aiyyamani Sivacharya of Tiruvadani, Ramanathapuram Dt. The matter dealt with is mainly śivapūjā and śaivācāra-s. The opening page reads: " VAARUNA PADDHATI OR AATMAARTHAPUUJAA PADDHATI. The manuscript of Vāruṇapaddhati, which is in the form of a half foolscap size notebook, belongs to śaivaśrī Aiyāmaṇi śivācārya, Tiruvadanai, Ramanathapuram District. This contains 423 pages with an average of 26 lines per page in a clean handwriting. The script is grantha. The transcript copy covers 720 pages and contains approximately 4,500 granthas. There are eight prakaraṇas in all. The matter dealt with is mainly about śivapūjā and śaiva ācāras. Profuse quotations from various āgamas as well as paddhati granthas are cited all over. Though the name of Vāruṇapaddhati is given at the beginning of the work, yet at the end of every prakaraṇa the colophon reads thus:- " ityātmārthapūjāpaddhatyāṃ saurapūjāvidhiḥ " and the like. T. Ramanujam 09/10/1961 "