Caṇḍīstotraprayogavidhi, [18--].

Format:

• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• Nāgeśabhaṭṭa, active 1670-1750.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Shaktism.
• Tantrism.
• Caṇḍi (Hindu deity).
• Hindu chants.
• Hinduism--Rituals--Texts.
• Hinduism--Rituals.

Genre:

• Texts.
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
• Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (13 leaves) : paper ; 16 x 25 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2593

Other Title:

Caṇḍīprayoga.

Place of Publication:

[18--].

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī).

Notes:

• Title from f. 13.
• Title and attribution according to New Catalogus Catalogorum: "Caṇḍī(stotra)prayoga(vidhi) by Nāgeśa Bhaṭṭa (or Nāgojī Bhaṭṭa); from his C. on Caṇḍīstotra or Devīmāhātmya."
• Listed by Poleman as Caṇḍīprayoga.
• Written 17-21 lines per leaf.
• Good condition.
• Orange powder rubbed in over some invocations, colophon, headings and other words. Some mistakes blocked out in black. A few marginal corrections.
• Begins: om̐ śrīgaṇeṣāya namaḥ om̐ namaścaṇḍikāyai athāsya saptasatīvyavahāraprayojaka saptasatahomavibhādarsita kātyāyanītantre mārkaṇḍeya ṛṣiḥ proktaḥ prathamaśloka.
• Ends: atra niṣkadakṣiṇāyāṁ daridrāṇāṁ catuḥsuvarṇam itarajatarūpaṁ dakṣiṇā sāṁarthānāṁ catuḥsuvarṇam iti hem.
• Colophon: iti śrīmadupādhyāyopanāmaśivabhaṭṭasūtasatīgarbhajanāgojībhaṭṭakṛte mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇāntargatasaptaśatyākhyacaṇḍīstotravyākhyāne caṇḍīstotraprayogavidhiṁ sa[mā]ptam[.] śrīdurgādevyai namaḥ prayogāntarāṇi prathamacaritravāgvījasaṁpuṭita 1 madhyamacaritra māyāvījasaṁpuṭita 2 uttaracaritra kāmavījasaṁpuṭita 3 tad yathā aiṁ hrīṁ krīṁ iti śubham.

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 4375 (UP 2593).
• Listed in Kunhan Raja, ed., New Catalogus Catalogorum, vol. 6 (Madras, India: University of Madras, 1949), p. 300.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2593

OCLC:

155924704