Details

Standardized Title:

Tantras. Rudrayāmalatantra. Selections.

Subjects:

Rudra (Hindu deity).
Durgā (Hindu deity).
Siva (Hindu deity).
Tantrism.
Hindu mantras.
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.

Form/Genre:

Texts.
Manuals (instructional materials)
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Primarily a collection of Tantric mantras (words or phrases of power) for use in rites and ceremonies dedicated to the Hindu deity Tvaritarudra, a god combining Rudra (a lower form of Śiva according to Tantric tradition) and his consort or divine energy (śakti) Tvarita (a lower form of the goddess Dūrgā).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 8r).
Written in 8-12 lines per leaf.
8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti rudrayāmale madanamāhārṇ avoktaṃ tvaritarudravidhānaṃ sa[ma]ptaṃ // (f. 8r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

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 4571 (UP 1386).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1386.

OCLC:

909587970