Details

Subjects:

Caṇḍi (Hindu deity).
Hindu goddesses.
Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Hindu mantras.
Hindu philosophy.
Tantrism.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Attributed to Śaṅkarācārya, but more likely written by one of his followers.

Summary:

Possibly a Tantric philosophical work including various mantras and references to deities such as the goddess Caṇḍī.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1v).
Written in 5 lines per leaf.
58 leaves foliated 1-57, [i], upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; invocation highlighted in red (f. 1v).

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 4649 (UP 2551).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2551.

OCLC:

969360083