Details

Other Title:

Ajapājapa.

Subjects:

Meditation -- Hinduism.
Hindu mantras.
Tantrism.

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Mantra and breath exercise called ajapājapa; starts with the practice of the three common breath exercises (prāṇāyāma) and especially focuses on the mantra haṃsa.

Notes:

Title from third line of text (f. 1r); alternate title Ajapājapa from marginal note, bottom left (f. 1v)
Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
Incipit: (f. 1r): śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ prāṇāyāmaṁ kṛtvā adya sūryodayād ārabhya śvaḥ sūryodayaparyaṁtaṁ ṣaṭśatādhikam ekaviṁśatisahasrasaṁkhyākaḥ ajapāgāyatrīmantrasya
Explicit: (f. 1v): brahmaraṁdhre guruṁ dhyātvā gurave sahasraṁ nivedayāmi evaṁ samarpayet
Colophon: śubhaṁ bhavatu vajhe upanāmakadivākareṇa likhitaṁ śake 1769 hemalaṁbīnāmasaṁvatsare āśvīnaśuklatrayodaśyāṁ idaṁ likhitaṁ (f. 1v).
Dated 13 śuklapakṣa of Āśvīna, śaka 1769 (Friday, October 22, 1847, f. 1v).
Scribe is Divākara Vajhe (f. 1v).
One mistake blotched out with black.

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 4403 (UP 2855).
Listed in Kunhan Raja, ed., New Catalogus Catalogorum, vol. 1 (Madras, India: University of Madras, 1949), p. 64.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2855

Contributor:

Divākara Vajhe, scribe.

OCLC:

420167524