Details

Standardized Title:

Tantras. Ekavīrātantra.

Other Title:

Bagalāstotra.
Vagalāmukhīkavaca.

Subjects:

Tantrism.
Shaktism.

Local subjects:

Bagalā (Hindu deity). (search)

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī).

Notes:

Title from colophon.
Bagalāmukhīkavaca from the Ekavīrātantra. Title on cover folio is Bagalāstotra. Cover folio (written in another hand on paper not part of original ms.) reads: śrīḥ gajānanaḥ prasannostu. Bagalāstotram etat.
Cataloged by Poleman as Vagalāmukhīkavaca.
Possibly sixteenth century.
Written 11-12 lines per leaf.
Complete in 43 stanzas.
Poor condition. Leaves dark brown, stained, torn on edges and brittle. Three folios have been mended with white paper and written over in a different hand. Some text lost on right margins. Orange powder rubbed in over invocation, colophon, some words and most verse numbers. Marginal corrections.
Begins (f 1v): śrīgaṇādhipataye namaḥ. śrīmahālakṣmyai namaḥ. [ ]rubho namaḥ. śrīparadevatāya namaḥ. śrīr astuḥ śu[ ]. śrīmahogratārovāca. rājñāṁ maṇḍalagādīna[ ] parivisarpatāṁ sagarvāṇāṁ mahādeva dhanair vikṛtace[ ] (verse 1).
Ends (f. 5v): kṛtvā purā tu kavacaṁ japenmantraṁ samāhitaḥ naanyathāthā stambhinīvidyāsiddhā syād iti niścayaḥ (verse 43).
Colophon: (f. 5v): iti shrī ekavīrātantre mahogratārābhairavasaṁvāde ṣadtriṁśad akṣarāvidyāratna[pra?]stotre bagalāmukhīkavacaṁ sampūrṇam. śrīguruparadevatā[rp]aṇam astu. śrīrāmārpaṇam [ ]

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 4428 (UP 485).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 485

OCLC:

387994010