Details

Standardized Title:

Tantras. Rudrayāmalatantra. Selections.

Other Title:

Baṭukadīpadānavidhi

Subjects:

Tantrism.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Śaivism.
Siva (Hindu deity).

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Expository, Tantric work on Śaiva ritual focused on Baṭuka, a form of the god Śiva.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2v); alternate title Baṭukadīpadānavidhi from incipit (f. 1r).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīrudrayāmale baṭukadīpadānaprakāraḥ samāptaḥ // (f. 2v).
Dated saṃvat 1914 and śaka 1779 (1867) (f. 2v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
Scribe is Kṛṣṇa Dāḍekara (f. 2v).

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 4581 (UP 1967).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1967.

Contributor:

Dāḍekara, Kṛṣṇa, scribe.

OCLC:

952047653