Details

Subjects:

Tantrism.

Local subjects:

Dakṣiṇakālikā (Hindu deity). (search)

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Newari).

Notes:

Title from wrapper label. No recognizable colophon, and no title abbreviations in margins. Probably incomplete.
Written 7 lines per leaf on a single sheet folded to form 21 folios (thyasaphu style).
Fair condition. Some leaves brown and very worn. Some leaves colored yellow. Mistakes covered over with yellow or white, crossed through or blotched out with black. Orange powder applied to highlight some words and double dandas. Orange blotches. Marginal corrections and insertions.
Begins: śrīdakṣiṇakālikā devatā hrīṁ bījaṁ hūṁ śaktiḥ krīṁ kīlakaṁ laṁ mamābhīṣṭa siddhyarthe jape viniyogaḥ iti kṛtāṁjalir uktvā bhairava ṛṣaye namaḥ śirasi
Ends: om̐ sparśarūparasagandhākāśāni me om̐ cāyutejaḥ salilabhūmyāṁ mano śuddhyatāṁ iti

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 4469 (UP 2431).
Listed in Kunhan Raja, ed., New Catalogus Catalogorum, vol. 8 (Madras, India: University of Madras, 1974), p. 291.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2431

OCLC:

406614575