Details

Subjects:

Hindu mantras.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Tantrism.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity).
Siva (Hindu deity).

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation, prayer, and recitation, and is a treatment of Hindu mantras to be used in Tantric rituals; narrated by the god Śiva and dedicated to Heramba, a form of the deity Gaṇeśa, popular in the state of Maharashtra.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 27v).
Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
27 leaves foliated 1-27, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti kumārasaṃhitāyāṃ rahasyātirahasyaṃ nāmaṃdarāmodhyāyaḥ śrīheraṃbārparṇam astu (f. 27v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.

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 4434 (UP 748).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 748

OCLC:

880675086