Details

Other Title:

Vāmanākṣarī.

Subjects:

Alphabet -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Tantrism.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Text in poor Sanskrit enumerating in 51 verses the mantric powers of the Sanskrit alphabet.

Notes:

Title from colophon. The manuscript's original acquisition label renders the title in Sanskrit as Vāmanākṣarī, under which title Poleman catalogs the ms.
Written 9-11 lines per leaf.
Good condition. Mistakes covered over with yellow or written over.
Begins (f. 1r): śrīkāre jaya kāryāṇīvidyām aiśvaryaṁ eva ca ārogyaṁ kṣemamāmotī labhate nātra saṁśaya (verse 1). akāre śokasaṁtāpaṁ vyavādaṁ saṁgam eva ca avyāhasakalāścaiva arkalābhaśca eva ca (verse 2).
Ends: jakāre yaśalābhaṁ ca dhaṁna prāmotīmānasāṁ [-]labhate tānna sandeho dhanam aiśvaryam eva ca (verse 51).
Colophon (f. 4v): ītī śrībāvaṁnākṣarī.

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 1449 (UP 486).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 486

OCLC:

155924971