Details

Standardized Title:

Tantras. Ākāśābhairavakalpa

Other Title:

Śarabheśvarasahasranāman.

Subjects:

Tantrism.
Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
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 from the Ākāśabhairavakalpa (see colophon).

Notes:

Title from cover page (f. 1r) and f. 15v. Cover page reads: atha śarabhasahasranāmaprārambhaḥ. F. 15v reads: iti śarabhasahasranāmasampūrṇaṁ. Title from colophon is Śarabheśvarasahasranāman. F. 15v reads: iti śarabhasahasranāmasampūrṇaṁ.
Title of this text, according to New Cat. Cat., is Śarabha(īśvara)sahasranāma(-stava, stotra).
Copied by Dhoṇḍabhaṭṭa.
Written 9 lines per leaf.
Good condition. Mistakes marked over in black.
Begins: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ śrīsarasvatyai namaḥ śrīgurubyāṁ namaḥ hariḥ om̐ śrī devyuvāca devadevamahādeva bhaktānugrahakārakaḥ durllabhā śārabhī vidyā guhyād guhyatarāparā (verse 1). guṭikā pādukā siddhistathā siddhiśca khecarī śāpānugrahasāmrthyā parakāyapraveśane (verse 2).
Stotra begins f. 3r: atha sahasranāmaprārambhaḥ om̐ śrīṁ śrīṁ siddhīśvaraḥ sākṣāt kheṁ kheṁ garvāpahārakaḥ hrīṁ hrīṁ spreṁ sphreṁ [hlauṁ hlauṁ?] 'lū 'lūṁ pakṣirājaḥ pratāpavān (verse 1).
Ends: svamātṛyonivad goyyaṁ vidyaiṣetyāgamājaguḥ paṭhanīyam idaṁ nityaṁ ātmanā śreyam ichatā na muñcati gṛhaṁ tas[m]āllakṣmī vāṇī sadaiva hi (verse 128).
Colophon: iti śrīākāśabhairavakalpe umāmaheśvarasaṁvāde śarabheśvarasahasranāmasampūrṇaṁ. om̐ śrīmadumāśaṅkarābhyāṁ namaḥ. saṁvat 1881 śake 1746 varṣe parāj̃ape upanāmakadhoṇḍabhaṭṭena likhitaṁ śivaṁ. śloka 151.

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 4410 (UP 1973).
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 1973

OCLC:

155924755