Details

Standardized Title:

Tantras. Rudrayāmalatantra. Selections.

Other Title:

Śivaśasahasranāmastotra
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, presented as a dialogue between the deities Skanda (sometimes named Kārttikeya) and Śiva. 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. 36r); alternate title Śivaśasahasranāma from title page (f. 1r); second alternate title Śivaśasahasranāmastotra supplied by cataloger.
Written in 5-8 lines per leaf.
36 leaves foliated 1-36, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrī[ru]drayāmale saptamāṃśe skaṃdaśivasaṃvāde śivasahasa[nāma]kathanaṃ nāmaprathamodhyāyaḥ // (f. 36r).
Rudimentary or unclear watermarks of a coat of arms on some folios.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Janārdana Koṇḍadeva Gāḍagīla, likely from the town of Gāḍagīla (f. 36r).

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 4599 (UP 1992).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1992.

Contributor:

Gāḍagīla, Janārdana Koṇḍadeva, former owner.

OCLC:

953736316