Details

Subjects:

Meditation -- Hinduism.
Hindu mantras.
Tantrism.
Shaktism.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Form/Genre:

Hymns (documents).
Prayers (documents).
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Small manuscript for private or public use and recitation containing two texts. The main text (f. 1r-4r) is focused on mantras for breath exercises. The second text, the Gurupādukāstuti (f. 4r-5v), is a work in praise of a teacher's (guru's) sandals (pādukā); mention of Śakti (feminine power) suggests elements of Tantrism.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r); title of second text Gurupādukāstuti from colophon.
Written in 6 lines per leaf.
5 leaves foliated 1-5, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīgurupādukāstutiḥ (f. 5r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; 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 1828, 1849 (UP 2501).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2501.

Contains:

Gurupādukāstuti.

OCLC:

968799991