Details

Standardized Title:

Pāñcarātra. Agastyasaṁhitā. Selections.

Other Title:

Agastasaṁhitā.

Subjects:

Vedas. R̥gveda. Gāyatrī.
Pāñcarātra (Sect).
Tantrism.
Hindu mantras.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī).

Notes:

Gāyatrīkavaca from the Agastasaṁhitā [Agastyasaṁhitā]. Title from colophon (f. 3v).
Written 7 lines per leaf.
Good condition. Double dandas filled in with red. Mistakes covered over with white. Marginal corrections.
Begins (f. 1v): śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ. om̐ asya śrīgāyatrīkavacasya vra[hma]viṣṇurudrā ṛṣayaḥ ṛgyajuḥsāmāni chandāṁsi vrahmaviṣṇurudrasva[r]ūpiṇī[gāyatrī] devatā prasādasiddhyarthe jape viniyogaḥ. om̐ tatsavitur vrahmātmane aṅguṣṭābhyāṁ namaḥ. om̐ vareṇyaṁ viśvātmane tarjjanībhyāṁ namaḥ.
Ends (f. 3r): strīgo[m]itradrohavrahmavadhādyakhilapāt[a?]kaiḥ mucyate sarvapāpaiśca paravrahmādhigachati (verse 15).
Colophon (f. 3v): iti agastasaṁhitāyāṁ śrīgāyatrīkavacaṁ sampūrṇaṁ.

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 4399 (UP 407).
Listed in Kunhan Raja, ed., New Catalogus Catalogorum, vol. 1 (Madras, India: University of Madras, 1949), p. 20

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 407

OCLC:

400006056