Details

Other Title:

Tvaritarudra

Subjects:

Tantrism.
Śaivism.
Rudra (Hindu deity).
Siva (Hindu deity).
Hindu mantras.
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.

Form/Genre:

Texts.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Primarily a collection of Tantric mantras (words or phrases of power) for use in rites and ceremonies dedicated to the Hindu deity Tvaritarudra, a god combining Rudra (a lower form of Śiva according to Tantric tradition) and his consort or divine energy (śakti) Tvarita (a lower form of the goddess Dūrgā). From a work called the Ratnakara.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 3v); alternate title Tvaritarudra from margin.
Written in 3 lines per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
Additions in margins of final folio (f. 3v).
Colophon: iti kṛtaratnākare tvaritarudravidhiḥ samāptaḥ (f. 3v).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2717.

OCLC:

973954244