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Tantrasāra, 1663.
তন্ত্রসার
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 765
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Kr̥ṣṇānanda Āgamavāgīśa Bhaṭṭācārya, active 16th century.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Hinduism.
- Śaivism.
- Shaktism.
- Tantrism.
- Bangladesh.
- Kālī (Hindu deity)--Early works to 1800.
- Kālī (Hindu deity).
- Tantrism--Early works to 1800.
- Shaktism--Early works to 1800.
- Śaivism--Early works to 1800.
- Hinduism--Bangladesh--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- treatises
- tables of contents
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Rāma Śarmmaṇ (f. 290v).
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (291 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 45 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 765
- Other Title:
- Bṛhattantrasāra.
- Place of Publication:
- 1663.
- ১৬৬৩.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Bengali)
- Summary:
- Manuscript is used for contemplation, study, meditation, and recitation and is one author's interpretation of what constitutes the essence (sāra) of Tantra, from a particularly Bengali perspective; has a focus on the goddess Kālī and the Śakta (female, divine energy) influence on Tantric tradition. Opening of text is a table of contents.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 290v); alternate title Bṛhattantrasāra supplied by cataloger.
- Written in 7-12 lines per leaf.
- 291 leaves foliated 1-290, [i], middle left and right verso.
- Dated śaka 1585 (1663) (f. 290v).
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and significant additions in margins; hole in center of each paper folio to mimic palm leaf. Gold flecks mixed into the paper.
- Colophon: iti mahāmahopadhyāya śrīkṛṣṇānandanyāyavāgīśabhaṭṭācāryyaviracitas tantrasāraḥ samāptaḥ // śakābdāḥ 1585 // śrī tantrasāro lekhe śrīmūrāri devaśarmmaṇā / [śāke jā]māṣu tithike granthaḥ śrī rāmaśarmmaṇaḥ (f. 290v).
- Scribe is Mūrāri Devaśarmmaṇā (f. 290v).
- 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 4372 (UP 765).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 765
- OCLC:
- 383860556
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