Details

Standardized Title:

Tantras. Rudrayāmalatantra. Selections.

Subjects:

Kālī (Hindu deity).
Siva (Hindu deity).
Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Hinduism -- Prayers and devotions.
Hindu mythology.
Tantrism.
Śaivism.
Yantras.

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Hymns.
Prayers.
Diagrams.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.
Devotional literature.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for private or public recitation and prayer and is in praise and worship of the fierce Tantric goddess Kāli. Contains a narrative by the deity Śiva about the goddess. Front folio has a rough diagram of a yantra (mystical diagram) consisting of an eight-petaled lotus flower with two intersecting triangles in its center (f. 1r), possibly related to the goddess Kāli, with a second diagram of an eight-pointed star within a circle on the verso (f. 1v).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 15r).
Written in 10-12 lines per leaf.
14 leaves foliated 1-7, 9-15, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīrudrayāmale kālikāsahasranāmar stautraṃ samāptaṃ // (f. 15r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins drawn with double lines in black or red ink and some having cross hatching within.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Veṇīmādhava Puṇatāmakara (f. 15v).

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 4550 (UP 437).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 437

Contributor:

Veṇīmādhava Puṇatāmakara, former owner.

OCLC:

841579879