Details

Standardized Title:

Tantras. Ākāśābhairavakalpa

Other Title:

Śarabhakavacastotramantra.

Subjects:

Tantrism.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī).

Summary:

Purports to be the 41st chapter (adhyāya) of the Akāśābhairavakalpa (see colophon). Complete in 111 verses.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 11v) and cover page (f. 1r). F. 1v gives alternate title Śarabhakavacastotramantra. Cover page reads: athaśarabhakavacaprārambhaḥ. śrī.
Copied by Ābā Śarmaṇ.
Written 9-10 lines per leaf.
Two leaves are given the page number 10.
Good condition.
Begins: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ. atha śarabhakavacastotramantraprārambhaḥ. om̐ asya śrīśarabha[-----]pakṣirājakavacastotramantrasya. Kālāgnirudraṛṣaye namaḥ śirasi. atijagatī chandase namaḥ mukhe. śrīśarabheśvaro devatāyai namaḥ hṛdaye. om̐ bījāya namaḥ guhye.
Ends (f. 11r): yat kṛtyaṁ taṁ na kṛtaṁ yad akṛtyaṁ kṛtyavat tad ācaritaṁ. ubhayor prāyaścittaṁ śiva tava nāmākṣaradvayo caritaṁ.
Colophon: iti śrīmadākāśabhairavakalpe pratyakṣasiddhiprade umāmaheśvarasaṁvāde śarabhakavacaṁ nāmaikacatvāriṁśodhyāyaḥ. śake 1700 vilaṁbī nāma saṁvatsare māghe māsi śuklapakṣe ṣaṣṭyāyāṁ tithau mandavāsaraḥ taddine idaṁ pustakaṁ samāptaṁ. limayopanāmak ābāśarmaṇena likhitaṁ.

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 4408 (UP 2541).
Listed in Kunhan Raja, ed., New Catalogus Catalogorum, vol. 5 (Madras, India: University of Madras, 1949), p. 5.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2541

OCLC:

155924739