Details

Standardized Title:

Tantras. Rudrayāmalatantra. Selections.

Other Title:

Gopālasundarī

Subjects:

Krishna (Hindu deity).
Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Form/Genre:

Hymns (documents)
Prayers (documents)
Dialogues.
Watermarks.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used for private or public recitation, prayer and worship (pūjā) in praise of the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa. Presented as a dialogue between Śiva and Pārvatī. Text is a section of the Rudrayāmala, a Śaiva work.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 4r); alternate title Gopālasundarī supplied by cataloger.
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; verse divisions, folio numbers, and title in red; vertical margins marked with double red line.
Watermark of parts of a coat of arms.
Colophon: iti śrīrudrayāmale śivapārvatīsaṃvāde madanagopāladhyānasamāptiḥ // śrīkṛṣṇārpa[ṇa] // (f. 4r).

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 4588 (UP 2538).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2538.

OCLC:

969357046