Details

Standardized Title:

Tantras. Uḍḍāmareśvaratantra. Bhairavasahasranāmastotra.

Other Title:

Kālabhairavasahasranāmastotra.
Uḍḍāmaratantra.
Bhairavastavarāja.

Subjects:

Bhairava (Hindu deity).
Tantrism.
Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī).

Notes:

Title from colophon. Cover folio reads: atha kālabhairavasahasranāma. Title from f. 2v is Bhairavastavarāja.
Cataloged by Poleman as Bhairavasahasranāmastotra in the Umāmaheśvarasaṁvāda.
Written 9 lines per leaf.
Good condition. Mistakes covered over with white. Orange powder rubbed in over invocation, colophon, some words and all numbers. Marginal corrections.
Written on European paper with watermarks. Ff. 1-11 blue paper, ff. 12-13 light aqua. Watermarks, ff. 2, 6, and 7, have "London" written in center, above which "Millington" is written.
Begins (f. 1v): śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ. om̐. de. kailāsaśikhare ramye devadevaṁ jagadguruṁ papracha pārvatī kāntaṁ śaṅkaraṁ lokanāyakaṁ (verse 1). pārvatyuvāca. devadeva mahādeva sarvajña sukhadāyaka āpaduḥkhadaridrādipīḍitānāṁ nṛṇāṁ vibho (verse 2). yad vittaṁ sukhasaṁpattir dhanadhānyakaraṁ sadā viśeṣato rājakule śāntipuṣṭipradāyakaṁ (verse 3).
Ends (f. 13r-v): satkulīnāya śāntāya ṛṣaye satyavādina stotradānāt suprahṛṣṭo bhairavobhūnmaheśvaraḥ (verse [1]72).
Colophon (f. 13v): 1001 iti śrī uḍḍāmare tantre umāmaheśvarasaṁvāde bhairavasahasranāmastotraṁ sampūrṇaṁ.
Text continues after colophon: atha bhairavamānasapūjā rudrayāmale kulacūḍāmaṇau. ādhāro bhujagādhirājava[l?]ayaṁ pātraṁ mahīmaṇḍalaṁ madyaṁ saptasamudravāripiśitaṁ cāṣṭau ca digdantinaḥ. so[']haṁ bhairavam arcayetpratidinaṁ tārāṁ gaṇair akṣitair ādityādinavagrahaiśca kusumair iṣṭārthasaṁsiddhaye (verse 1).

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 4422 (UP 1965).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1965

OCLC:

155924979