Details

Standardized Title:

Tantras. Akulāgamatantra.

Subjects:

Tantrism.
Yoga.
Agama.
Siva (Hindu deity).

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit and Nepali (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Collection of topics about yoga and various stages (tūrya) of ecstasy such as the brahmagnitūrya, as well as the veneration of Śiva; presented as a discourse (saṁvāda) of the Hindu deities Mahādeva (Śiva) and Pārvatī; the text Yogasarasamuccaya is divided into nine chapters and claims to be a part of the Akulāgamatantra, a text otherwise unknown; possibly considered part of the school of Matsyendranatha; the cover is written in Nepali attributing ownership of the manuscript to a minor Nepali king named Śrī 3 Bīr Mardana.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 22v).
Written 11-13 lines per leaf.
Mistakes blotched out with black; written without daṇḍas; final folio (f. 22) badly damaged.
Incipit: śrīgurubhyo namaḥ śrīgaṇeṣāya namaḥ nārada uvāca yas tuṣṭādau tvayā nātha munisiddhair anekadhā anekaśāstramaryādā kathitā parameśvara 1 prasanno bhava deveśa bhavaduḥkhavināśana anekaśāstrabhramaṇād asmākaṁ mohitaṁ manaḥ 2 etac ca kāraṇaṁ kiṁcit kiṁ yogaḥ procyate śrutau yogaṁ ca ṣadvidhaṁ proktaṁ nānā tvaṁ tasya dṛśyate 3 (f. 1v).
Explicit: āsanādikrameṇaiva prāṇāyāmaṁ samabhyaset abhyāsāc ca svayaṁ prājño gacchate vyomamaṁḍalaṁ ayaṁ yogaḥ sarvaśāstreṣu vijānīyād varānane guroḥ prasādāt jñātavyaṁ rahasyam akulāgamaṁ 23 (f.22v).
Colophon: iti śrīakulāgame mahātaṁtre yogasārasamuccaye mahādevapārvatīsaṁvāde navamaḥ paṭalaḥ saṁpūrṇaṃ śrīsītāḥ (f. 22v).

Penn Provenance:

From the library of Śrī 3 Bīr Mardana Mahārāja, possibly of the Lamjung district of Nepal, 18th century.

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 4397 (UP 580).
Listed in Kunhan Raja, ed., New Catalogus Catalogorum, vol. 1 (Madras, India: University of Madras, 1949).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 580

Contributor:

Śrī 3 Bīr Mardana, Mahārāja, former owner.

OCLC:

155924675