Details

Standardized Title:

Tantras. Ākāśābhairavakalpa

Other Title:

Ākāśabhairavatantra.
Śarabhasahasranāmastotra.
Śarabhakavaca.

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:

Consists of an invocation and three sections of text. Section one begins, f. 2r, with "atha prayoga." The second section, beginning f. 4r, is entitled Śarabhakavaca (c.f. Mss. UP# 1971, 2541), and purports to be chapter eleven of the Ākāśabhairavatantra (see colophon f. 8r). The third section, ff. 8r - end, is entitled Śarabhasahasranāmastotra from the Ākāśabhairavatantra Kalpa (see colophon f. 14v), and has unnumbered verses.

Notes:

Written 12-13 lines per leaf.
Poor condition. Paper is browned and fraying. Orange powder rubbed over section headings and invocations. Mistakes crossed through or blotched out with black. Marginal corrections. Ff. 1-3 torn through middle and repaired. F. 14 torn through middle and repaired, with a hole affecting 4 lines of text. Marginal corrections.
Begins (f. 1v): śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ. śrīḥ om̐ namaḥ pakṣirājāya niśitakuliśavaradaṁ drȧnaravāya anekakoṭibrahmakapālamālālaṁkṛtāya sakalakrūramahānāmabhūṣaṇāya [...].
"Prayoga" begins (f. 2r): atha prayogaḥ. om̐ aiṁ krīṁ śriṁ namo bhagavate śrīśivāya [ya]mayuratḥ jvala 2 prajvala 2 asādhyaṁ sādhaya 2 rakṣa 2 sarva[-]uṣṭebhyo [hu?]ṁ phaṭ svāhā.
"Prayoga" ends (f. 3v): spṛśan yasya japaṁ kṛtvā pratisthānaṁ samāhitaḥ prārthayed akhilaṁ sveṣṭaṁ hradisthaṁ sāluveśvaraṁ (3). śrīśiva.
Śarabhakavaca begins (f. 4r): śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ. athāpi śṛṇu deveśi sarvalakṣaṇam adbhutaṁ śārabhaṁ kavacaṁ nāma caturvargaphalapradaṁ (verse 1). śarabhaḥ pakṣirājasya kavacasya sadāśivaḥ ṛṣiṣ́chandosya bṛhatī procyate śarabheśvaraḥ (verse 2).
Śarabhakavaca ends (f. 8r): ubhayoḥ prāyaścittaṁ śiva tava nāmākṣaradvayaṁ (verse 111).
Colophon f. 8r: iti śrīmatākāśabhairavatantre umāmaheśvarasaṁvāde śarabhakavacaṁ nāmaikādaśaḥ paṭalaḥ.
Śarabhasahasranāmastotra begins (f. 8r): atha stotraṁ. bhairava uvāca. śṛṇu devi mahāguhyaṁ paramaṁ puṇyavar[--]ūnaṁ. śarabheśāṣṭakaṁ mantraṁ vakṣyāmi tava tattvataḥ (verse 1).
Śarabhasahasranāmastotra ends (f. 14v): prayataḥ prātaḥ brahmacā[rya----a?]teṁdriyaḥ. abhinnayogo varṣaṁ tu aśvamedhaphalaṁ labhet.
Colophon f. 14v: ityākāśabhairavatantre kalpe hariharabrahmaviraci[taṁ śabha]rasahasranāmastotraṁ samp[ū]rṇā. śrīvaijanāthāya namaḥ.

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 4396 (UP 577).
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 577

OCLC:

155924759