Details

Standardized Title:

Tantras. Rudrayāmalatantra. Selections.

Subjects:

Hinduism -- Prayers and devotions.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Śaivism.
Tantrism.
Siva (Hindu deity).
Pilgrims and pilgrimages -- India.
Pilgrims and pilgrimages.
India.
Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India).

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.
Devotional literature.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript contains adhyāya 5 of the seventh aṃśa of a larger work called the Śivarahasya, which is itself part of a work on Tantra called the Rudrayāmalatantra. It is dedicated to the praise of the city of Vārāṇasī (Kāśī) a sacred pilgrimage center for the Hindu deity Śiva.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 5v).
Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīśivarahasye saptamāṃśe śivagaurīsaṃvāde kāśīmahātme kāśīvāsaniyamavidhikathanaṃ nāmapaṃcāmodhyāyaḥ // (f. 5v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
A single wooden board supports the manuscript.

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 4627 (UP 1999).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1999.

OCLC:

953488915