Details

Standardized Title:

Tantras. Utkaṇṭhaśavera nagendraparāyaṇatantra. Selections.

Subjects:

Tantrism.
Hindu goddesses.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Hindu mantras.

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Hymns.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Text to be used in private or public meditation and prayer in honor and worship of the Hindu Tantric goddess Vagalā, giving one thousand names of the goddess in the form of mantras. Text is incomplete with first folio missing.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 16v).
Written in 7-10 lines per leaf.
15 leaves foliated 2-16, upper left and lower right verso.
Scribe is Lakṣmīdatta (f. 16v).
Colophon: iti śrī utkaṇṭaśaveranāgendraparāyaṇatantre ṣoḍaśasahasre viṣṇuśakrasamvāde śrīvagalāsahasranāmasaṃpūrṇa [2 dotted circles] samvat 1906 [1 dotted circle] śubham [2 dotted circles] candrāṅkarasasaṃyukte vatsareravivāso lakṣṃīdatena likhitaṃ pītānāmasahasūkam [1 dotted circle] (f. 16v).
Dated saṃvat 1906 (1849) (f. 16v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
Non-Latin script record.

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 1431 (UP 430).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 430

Contributor:

Lakṣmīdatta, active 16th century, scribe.

OCLC:

800388727