Kālikāsahasranāmastotra, circa 1700-1850. = कालिकासहस्रनामस्तोत्र, १७००-१८५०.
- Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
१७००-१८५०. - Format/Description:
- Manuscript
1 item (14 leaves) : paper ; 9 x 18 cm - Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 437
- Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3xf8w - Status/Location:
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- Standardized Title:
- Tantras. Rudrayāmalatantra. Selections.
- Subjects:
- Kālī (Hindu deity).
Siva (Hindu deity).
Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Hinduism -- Prayers and devotions.
Hindu mythology.
Tantrism.
Śaivism.
Yantras. - Form/Genre:
- Poems.
Hymns.
Prayers.
Diagrams.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.
Devotional literature. - Language:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript is used for private or public recitation and prayer and is in praise and worship of the fierce Tantric goddess Kāli. Contains a narrative by the deity Śiva about the goddess. Front folio has a rough diagram of a yantra (mystical diagram) consisting of an eight-petaled lotus flower with two intersecting triangles in its center (f. 1r), possibly related to the goddess Kāli, with a second diagram of an eight-pointed star within a circle on the verso (f. 1v).
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 15r).
Written in 10-12 lines per leaf.
14 leaves foliated 1-7, 9-15, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīrudrayāmale kālikāsahasranāmar stautraṃ samāptaṃ // (f. 15r).
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 drawn with double lines in black or red ink and some having cross hatching within. - Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Veṇīmādhava Puṇatāmakara (f. 15v).
- 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 4550 (UP 437).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 437
- Contributor:
- Veṇīmādhava Puṇatāmakara, former owner.
- OCLC:
- 841579879