Details

Standardized Title:

Tantras. Rudrayāmalatantra. Selections.

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Text praising one thousand names of the Hindu goddess Bhāvānī. Work is a small, pocket sized manuscript, to be used in private or public devotion and worship (pūjā). Presented as a dialogue between the gaṇa (follower of Śiva) and the deity Śiva (named Īśvara in the text, f. 31r). Part of a larger Śaiva work on Tantra, the Rudrayāmalatantra.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 31r).
Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
32 leaves foliated 1-32, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrudrayāmalake saṃhitāyāṃ paramarahasyaṃ naṃdikeśvara īśvarasaṃvāde bhavānīsahasranāmastotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // (f. 31r).
Scribe is Ballāḷa Bhuskuṭa (f. 31r).
Dated śaka 1674 (1752) (f. 31r).
Unclear watermarks of a coat of arms.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with quadruple red line.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Janārdana Koṇḍadeva Gāḍagīla (f. 31r), likely from the town of Gāḍagīla.

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 4586 (UP 1993).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1993.

Contributor:

Bhuskuṭa, Ballāḷa, scribe.
Gāḍagīla, Janārdana Koṇḍadeva, former owner.

OCLC:

953736576