Details

Standardized Title:

Tantras. Rudrayāmala. Yoginīdaśā.

Subjects:

Hindu astrology -- Early works to 1800.
Hindu astrology.
Tantrism -- Early works to 1800.
Yoginīs.
Tantrism.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī).

Notes:

Title from colophon.
Written 10-11 lines per leaf.
Copied by a Nāgara Brahmaṇa, Kṛṣṇanātha Amadāvādīdave, son of Vaijanātha, in Vārāṇasi (Benaras).
Good condition. Left and right margins formed by double black lines. Double dandas in red. Syllables alternate red and black in colophons and section headings. Single red dandas separate word boundaries in part of colophon. Mistakes covered over with white or grey. Black blotches. Marginal corrections.
F. 7r contains four completed charts across top and four blank charts across bottom. Lines in red, writing in black. F. 7v contains a single chart in lower right.
Begins (f. 1v): iti yoginīdaśākramo likhyaṁte natvā gaṇeśaṁ giriṁ abjayoniṁ viṣṇuṁ śivaṁ sūryamukhān grahe[dr?]ān vakṣe spuṭaṁ rudrak[ṛ?]tādyaśāstrād daśākramaṁ sat kila yoginījaṁ 1
Ends (f. 7v): yoginyo vasusaṁkhyayā svasutavat nāmnī samānaṁ phalaṁ pāke svīyadaśā bhavet vihad idaṁ gopyaṁ prakāśyaṁ cana
Colophon (f. 7v): iti śrīrudrayāmale maṁtre śivapārvatīsaṁvāde śivakṛtā yoginīdaśā samāptā saṁpūrṇam li* vārāṇasyāṁ nāgara brāhmaṇa amadāvādī dave śrī 5 vaijanātha suta kṛṣṇanāthena svārthaṁ parārthaṁ ca svasti śrīsamvat1855 śake 1720 āṣāḍha śukla 11 ravau mādhyānne saṁpūrṇam yādṛśaṁ pustakaṁ dṛṣṭvā tādṛśaṁ likhitaṁ mayā yadi śuddham aśuddhaṁ vā mama doṣo na dīyate 1 śubhaṁ

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 4592 (UP 714).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 714

OCLC:

406564237