Details

Standardized Title:

Tantras. Rudrayāmalatantra. Selections.

Other Title:

Śivaśasahasranāma

Subjects:

Hinduism -- Prayers and devotions.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Siva (Hindu deity).
Kārttikeya (Hindu deity).
Śaivism.
Tantrism.

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Dialogues.
Watermarks.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.
Devotional literature.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Text praising one thousand names of the Hindu deity Śiva and presented as a dialogue between the deities Skanda (sometimes named Kārttikeya) and Sadāśiva (a peaceful form of Śiva often associated with Śaivasiddhanta). 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. 28v); alternate title Śivaśasahasranāma from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
27 leaves foliated 1-26,28, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīśivarahasye saptamāṃśe skaṃdasadāśivasaṃvāde mukhyaśivasahasranāmastotraṃ samāptaṃ // (f. 28v).
Rudimentary or unclear watermarks of a coat of arms on some folios.
Dated saṃvatare Dundubhi (or the 56th year of the 60-year cycle of Jupiter, likely 1741-1742 or 1801-1802) (f. 28v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; margins marked with quadruple 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 4637 (UP 1996).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1996.

OCLC:

953488885