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Other Title:

Baṭukabhairavamantra
Śivaṣaḍakṣarīmantra
Gaṇapatimantra.
Gaṇapatimantravidhi.

Subjects:

Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity).
Bhairava (Hindu deity).
Siva (Hindu deity).
Hindu mantras.
Tantrism.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī).

Notes:

Three short tracts of text providing mantras for the deities Mahāgaṇapati, Baṭukabhairava and Śiva. Titles from headings. Cataloged by Poleman as Gaṇapatimantra. Title supplied on acquisition wrapper label is Gaṇapatimantravidhi.
Written 27 lines total.
Good condition. Right and left margins formed with double red lines. Text in brown and brownish-red ink. Colophon, some words, and some double dandas in red. Mistakes crossed through with red or blotched out with red and brown.
Begins (f. 1r): śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ asya śrīmahāgaṇapatimantrasya gaṇakaṛsaye namaḥ śirasi nicṛdgāyatrī chandase namaḥ mukhe śrī mahāgaṇapatidevatāyai namaḥ hṛdaye
Text ends (f. 1v): om̐ namaḥ śivāya prāṇāyāmapūrvakaṁ hṛdayādinyāsaṁ kṛtvā mānasaṁ saṁpūjyet

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 4437 (UP 1985).
Listed in Kunhan Raja, ed., New Catalogus Catalogorum, vol. 5 (Madras, India: University of Madras, 1969), p. 245.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1985

OCLC:

420243059