Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Texts.
Prayers.
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.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; one addition in margin; vertical margins marked with double black line.

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 4608 (UP 2033).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2033.

OCLC:

956707388