Details

Standardized Title:

Tantras. Ākāśābhairavakalpa

Subjects:

Tantrism.
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.

Local subjects:

Śarabha (Hindu deity). (search)

Form/Genre:

Texts.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī).

Summary:

Purports to be the 40th chapter (adhyāya) of the Ākāśabhairavakalpa. Complete in 110.5 verses.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 10r) and cover page (f. 1r). Cover page reads: atha śarabhakavacaprārambhaḥ patreṁ 10.
Written 9 lines per leaf.
Good condition. Paper very brown. Mistakes covered over with yellow.
Begins: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ śrīsarasvatyai namaḥ śrīgurubhyo namaḥ śrīdevyuvāca[.] sarvajña sarvamantrajña sarvācārya śiva pabho. śārabhaṁ kavacaṁ divyaṁ sarvarakṣākaraṁ paraṁ (verse 1). vajrapañjaranāmākhyaṁ vada me karuṇākara. śrīśiva uvāca. kathyāmi śṛṇu te devi sarvarakṣākaraṁ paraṁ (verse 2).
Ends: prāgānanobhi vṛddhau tu sarveṣvīśānadiṅmukhaḥ yojayet kavacaṁ nityaṁ trikālaṁ dhyȧnapūrvakaṁ (verse 109). sarvasiddhim evāpnoti sahasā sādhakottamaḥ. devadevamahādevaśivakāruṇyavāridhe (verse 110). pāhi māṁ praṇataṁ svāmin prasīda satataṁ mama.
Colophon: ityākāśabhairavakalpe pratyakṣasiddhiprade śarabhakavacaṁ nāma catvāriṁśodhyāyaḥ. saṁvat 1881 śake 1746 varṣe pustakaṁ likhitaṁ. śloka 120.

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 4407 (UP 1971).
Listed in Kunhan Raja, ed., New Catalogus Catalogorum, vol. 2 (Madras, India: University of Madras, 1949), p. 5.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1971

OCLC:

155924747