Details

Standardized Title:

Tantras. Rudrayāmalatantra. Selections.

Other Title:

Maṅgalastotra.

Subjects:

Initiation rites -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Tantrism.
Śaivism.
Siva (Hindu deity).
Hindu mantras.

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Hymns.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript for use during Śaiva initiation (dīkṣitạ̄) rites of transformation (maṅgala) and worship (pūjā), containing a series of Sanskrit mantras for recitation.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 1v); alternate title Maṅgalastotra (1r).
Written in 15 lines per leaf.
1 leaf foliated.
Colophon: iti śrīrudrayāmale maṃgalaproktaṃ maṃgalapoktaṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // yādṛśaṃ pustakaṃ dṛṣtvā tadṛśaṃ likhi[taṃ] mayā // yadi ṣudham aṣudhaṃ vā mama doṣo na dīyate 1 // (f. 1v).
Mistakes blacked out; text written to the edge of the paper.

Penn Provenance:

Manuscript was purchased and housed together with Item 443.

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 4587 (UP 442).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 442

OCLC:

841583913