Details

Standardized Title:

Tantras. Rudrayāmalatantra. Devīrahasya. Bālātripurasundarīsahasranāmāvali

Subjects:

Sex -- Religious aspects -- Tantrism.
Sex -- Religious aspects.
Tripurasundarī (Hindu deity).
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Tantrism.
Śaivism.

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Prayers.
Hymns.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript employed for private recitation and prayer and is small enough to be kept close to one's person. The text is dedicated to the praise of the youthful (bālā) form of the Tantric goddess Tirpurasundarī, a consort of the Hindu deity Śiva in some Tantric systems, especially those from Kashmir (such as the Kaulas). Known especially as an erotic goddess.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r).
Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
Incipit: om̐ asya śrī vālatripurasuṃdarīstotramaṃtrasya dakṣiṇāmurti ṛṣiḥ paṃktiḥ chaṃdaḥ // (f. 1r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out.

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 1869 (UP 446).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 446

OCLC:

841602529