Details

Subjects:

Hindu mantras.
Rudra (Hindu deity).
Tantrism.
Śaivism.
Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts.
Hinduism -- Rituals.

Form/Genre:

Texts.
Prayers (documents)
Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Short (laghu) preparatory Tantric ritual manual with associated rules and regulations for ritually touching parts of the body while reciting mantras to Rudra, a Vedic precedent for the Hindu deity Śiva. Lacks beginning. Manuscript was folded in half to make more portable for personal use.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 3v).
Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 2-3, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti laghunyāsasamāptaṃ // (f. 3v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; Vedic accents highlighted in red throughout for aiding recitation.

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 3476 (UP 2719).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2719.

OCLC:

974380510