Details

Standardized Title:

Tantras. Rudrayāmalatantra. Selections.

Subjects:

Śaivism.
Siva (Hindu deity).
Tantrism.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Hindu hymns.
Yantras.

Form/Genre:

Hymns (documents)
Manuals (instructional materials)
Diagrams.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Tantric work containing hymns of praise in honor of the deity Śiva in the form of Baṭukabhairava. There is a sacred diagram (yantra) of a lotus flower on the cover (f. 1r).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 22v).
Written in 5-8 lines per leaf.
22 leaves foliated 1-22, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīrudrayāmale diśvasāro hyāre prāpaduddhāraṇabaṭukabhairavostotraṃ likhī - sukharāmasya mi[?]iliṃkhī - (f. 22v).
Dated saṃvat 1871 (1814) (f. 22r-22v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; verse divisions and diagram in red; vertical margins marked with double red and black 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 4583 (UP 2480).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2480.

OCLC:

968132577