Details

Standardized Title:

Tantras. Śāradātilakatantra

Subjects:

Tantrism.
Hindu mantras.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī).

Notes:

The nineteenth chapter (paṭala) of the Śāradātilakatantra, complete in 134 verses. Title from colophon and from left margins of verso leaves.
Written 11-12 lines per leaf.
Fair condition. Manuscript has a vertical fold down its middle. Mistakes crossed through or blotched out with black. A couple marginal corrections.
Text begins (f. 1r): śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ. atha vakṣye mantraratnaṁ samastapuruṣārthadaṁ avāpūryena japtena divyaṁ jñānaṁ munīśvarāḥ (verse 1). dakṣiṇāmūrtaye pūrvaṁ tubhyaṁ padam anantaraṁ vaṭamūlapadasyāṁ te padaṁ paścānnivāsine (verse 2).
Text ends: bahunā kim ihoktena mantreṇānena bhūtale sadṛśo nāsti mantronyo bhūtanigrahasādhakaḥ (verse 134).
Colophon (f. 5v): iti śrīśāradātilake ekonaviṁśatimaḥ paṭalaḥ. sābārpaṇam astu.

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 4384 (UP 1983).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1983

OCLC:

155924932