Details

Standardized Title:

Tantras. Rudrayāmalatantra. Selections.

Other Title:

Gaṇeśasahasranāmastotramantra
Gaṇeśasahasranāma

Subjects:

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity).
Śaivism.
Tantrism.
Hindu mantras.

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Poems.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for public or private recitation or prayer and worship (pūjā) of the elephant-headed deity Gaṇeśa. Text praises, through mantras and verse, a thousand names of the god and is from a larger work known as the Rudrayāmala, a work of Tantric Śaivism.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 17r); alternate title Gaṇeśasahasranāma from title page (f. 1r); second alternate title Gaṇeśasahasranāmastotramantra from incipit (f. 1v).
Written in 7-9 lines per leaf.
18 leaves foliated 1-18, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti rudrayāmalataṃtre mahārahasye śrīvaradagaṇeśasahasranāmastotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // (f. 17r).
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 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 4555 (UP 1978).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1978.

OCLC:

952052625