Details

Standardized Title:

Tantras. Rudrayāmalatantra. Selections.

Other Title:

Gaṇeśasahasranāmastotra

Subjects:

Tantrism.
Śaivism.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Hinduism -- Prayers and devotions.
Hinduism -- Prayers and devotions -- Early works to 1800.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit -- Early works to 1800.
Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity) -- Early works to 1800.
Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity).
Śaivism -- Early works to 1800.
Tantrism -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.
Devotional literature.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Text praising one thousand names of the Hindu deity Gaṇeśa in the form of Varadagaṇeśa (boon-granting Gaṇeśa), possibly connected to the Varadvinayak pilgrimage center in Maharashtra. Work is to be used in private or public devotion and worship (pūjā). Part of a larger Śaiva work on Tantra, the Rudrayāmalatantra.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 15r); alternate title Gaṇeśasahasranāmastotra from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
15 leaves foliated 1-15, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrudrayāmalataṃtre mahārahasye śrīvaradagaṇeśasahasranāmastotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // (f. 15r).
Dated śaka 1674 (1752) (f. 15r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with quadruple red line as well as decorative designs in black and red ink; some folios are treated with a blue wash mixed with a metallic powder.

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 4556 (UP 1991).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1991.

OCLC:

953488706