Details

Other Title:

Ṣaṭacakravarṇana.

Subjects:

Tantrism.
Chakra (Hinduism).
Śaivism.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Form/Genre:

Commentaries.
Facsimiles.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Bengali)

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Summary:

Manuscript is comprised of three texts, likely part of a family library. The first and third are commentaries about the Ṣaṭcakra, a work illuminating six centers of power located within the human body and associated with different types of meditation and Tantra; a second text is a version of the Gītā, but written from a Śaiva rather than Vaiṣṇava perspective, possibly the Śivagītā.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Comilla, Bangladesh Rāmamālā Library, Mahesh Charitable Trust
Written in 3-9 lines per folio.
30 leaves foliated 1-16, 1-4, 3-12, middle right verso; there are five additional photos -- two are of the cover and three are of notes separating each text.
Title from internal colophon (f. 16v); title of second text Gītā from internal colophon (f. 4v); title of third text Ṣaṭacakravarṇana from cover.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; paper treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect from insects.
Dimensions of original manuscript: 9 x 52 cm.
Reproduced from the original with permission of the Mahesh Charitable Trust under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license.
Notes and numbers written in a modern Bengali hand: Kra: 1162; Vi: 182.
Scribe of first text is Rāmavallabha Śarmmaṇa (f. 16v); scribe of second text is Śivadāsa Śarmmaṇa (f. 4v).

Contributor:

Rāmavallabha Śarmmaṇa, scribe.
Śivadāsa Śarmmaṇa, scribe.

OCLC:

921248003