Details

Other Title:

Caṇḍīprayoga.

Subjects:

Shaktism.
Tantrism.
Caṇḍi (Hindu deity).
Hindu chants.
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.

Form/Genre:

Texts.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī).

Notes:

Title from f. 13.
Title and attribution according to New Catalogus Catalogorum: "Caṇḍī(stotra)prayoga(vidhi) by Nāgeśa Bhaṭṭa (or Nāgojī Bhaṭṭa); from his C. on Caṇḍīstotra or Devīmāhātmya."
Listed by Poleman as Caṇḍīprayoga.
Written 17-21 lines per leaf.
Good condition.
Orange powder rubbed in over some invocations, colophon, headings and other words. Some mistakes blocked out in black. A few marginal corrections.
Begins: om̐ śrīgaṇeṣāya namaḥ om̐ namaścaṇḍikāyai athāsya saptasatīvyavahāraprayojaka saptasatahomavibhādarsita kātyāyanītantre mārkaṇḍeya ṛṣiḥ proktaḥ prathamaśloka.
Ends: atra niṣkadakṣiṇāyāṁ daridrāṇāṁ catuḥsuvarṇam itarajatarūpaṁ dakṣiṇā sāṁarthānāṁ catuḥsuvarṇam iti hem.
Colophon: iti śrīmadupādhyāyopanāmaśivabhaṭṭasūtasatīgarbhajanāgojībhaṭṭakṛte mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇāntargatasaptaśatyākhyacaṇḍīstotravyākhyāne caṇḍīstotraprayogavidhiṁ sa[mā]ptam[.] śrīdurgādevyai namaḥ prayogāntarāṇi prathamacaritravāgvījasaṁpuṭita 1 madhyamacaritra māyāvījasaṁpuṭita 2 uttaracaritra kāmavījasaṁpuṭita 3 tad yathā aiṁ hrīṁ krīṁ iti śubham.

Cited in:

Listed in H.I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 4375 (UP 2593).
Listed in Kunhan Raja, ed., New Catalogus Catalogorum, vol. 6 (Madras, India: University of Madras, 1949), p. 300.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2593

OCLC:

155924704