Details

Other Title:

Śarabheśvara.
Ākāśabhairavakalpa.

Subjects:

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

Local subjects:

Śarabha (Hindu deity). (search)

Form/Genre:

Texts.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī).

Summary:

An incomplete manuscript describing the worship of Śarabha through mantra, yantra, cakra, pūjā, etc.

Notes:

Title from Poleman, who catalogs it (on an unclear basis) as part of the Ākāśabhairavakalpa.
Cover page (f. 1r) reads: śrīśarabheśvara.
Written 8-10 lines per leaf in more than one hand.
Good condition. Left and right margins indicated with double red lines. Some dandas added in red. Pagination abbreviation "śarabha" on upper left of verso folios. Substantial marginal additions. Mistakes covered over with yellow, crossed through or blotched out with black. Sectional headings and colophons, some words, and some verse numbers highlighted with orange powder.
Begins: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ. om̐ rātriśeṣe samutthāya guruṁ dhyāye[c]chirombuje varadābhayadaṁ devapakṣirājasvarūpakaṁ (verse 1). evaṁ dhyātvā pakṣirājaṁ gāyatryaṣṭottaraṁ japaṁ pakṣirājāya vidmahe śarabheśvarāya dhīmahi tanno rudraḥ pracodayāt. tatrāsanam āstīrya oṁ hrīṁ ādhāraśaktikamalāsanāya namaḥ.
Ends f. 19v in verse 51 of section entitled Kāmyaprayoga: putramitrakalatrādīṁstyaktvā deśāntaraṁ vrajet gacchatyeva na sandeho dh[ṛ?]tir bhairavabhāṣitaṁ (verse 50). rājavṛkṣasya puttalyāṁ bhūbījaṁ smara vahninā.

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 4409 (UP 601).
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 601

OCLC:

155924764