Vakratuṇḍamahāmantra, circa 1700-1850.
वक्रतुण्डमहामन्त्र

Format:

• Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity).
• Hindu mantras.
• Rites and ceremonies--India.
• Rites and ceremonies.
• India.
• Śiva (Hindu deity).
• Siva (Hindu deity).

Genre:

• prayers (compositions)
• hymns
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
• Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 18 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 417

Place of Publication:

• circa 1700-1850.
• १७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Text used in public and private meditation and prayer dedicated to the worship (pūjā) and veneration of the Hindu deity, the elephant-headed Gaṇeśa (named Vakratuṇḍa or the one with the curved trunk). Contains primarily a series of mantras related to this deity. The names Gaṇeśa and Śiva are written as abbreviations of a larger title of an unknown Purāṇic work, possibly the Gaṇeśapurāṇa. Lacks end and incorrectly titled "Aghoramantra" by Poleman using the explicit (f. 2v).

Notes:

• Title from incipit (f. 1r).
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
• 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out.
• Formerly housed with Item 413, Item 414, Item 415, and Item 416.
• Non-Latin script record.

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 1826 (UP 417).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1826

OCLC:

800392369