Śarabhakavaca, 1778.

Format:

• Manuscript

Standardized Title:

• Tantras. Ākāśābhairavakalpa

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Tantrism.

Genre:

• Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
• Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (11 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 15 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2541

Other Title:

Śarabhakavacastotramantra.

Place of Publication:

1778.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī).

Summary:

Purports to be the 41st chapter (adhyāya) of the Akāśābhairavakalpa (see colophon). Complete in 111 verses.

Notes:

• Title from colophon (f. 11v) and cover page (f. 1r). F. 1v gives alternate title Śarabhakavacastotramantra. Cover page reads: athaśarabhakavacaprārambhaḥ. śrī.
• Copied by Ābā Śarmaṇ.
• Written 9-10 lines per leaf.
• Two leaves are given the page number 10.
• Good condition.
• Begins: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ. atha śarabhakavacastotramantraprārambhaḥ. om̐ asya śrīśarabha[-----]pakṣirājakavacastotramantrasya. Kālāgnirudraṛṣaye namaḥ śirasi. atijagatī chandase namaḥ mukhe. śrīśarabheśvaro devatāyai namaḥ hṛdaye. om̐ bījāya namaḥ guhye.
• Ends (f. 11r): yat kṛtyaṁ taṁ na kṛtaṁ yad akṛtyaṁ kṛtyavat tad ācaritaṁ. ubhayor prāyaścittaṁ śiva tava nāmākṣaradvayo caritaṁ.
• Colophon: iti śrīmadākāśabhairavakalpe pratyakṣasiddhiprade umāmaheśvarasaṁvāde śarabhakavacaṁ nāmaikacatvāriṁśodhyāyaḥ. śake 1700 vilaṁbī nāma saṁvatsare māghe māsi śuklapakṣe ṣaṣṭyāyāṁ tithau mandavāsaraḥ taddine idaṁ pustakaṁ samāptaṁ. limayopanāmak ābāśarmaṇena likhitaṁ.

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 4408 (UP 2541).
• Listed in Kunhan Raja, ed., New Catalogus Catalogorum, vol. 5 (Madras, India: University of Madras, 1949), p. 5.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2541

OCLC:

155924739