Haṭhapradīpika, circa 1700-1850.
हठप्रदीपिक

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Ātmārāma.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Hatha yoga.

Yoga.

Śaivism.

Hindu philosophy.

Nātha sect.

Genre:

treatises

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (34 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 22 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1931

Other Title:

Haṭhavidyā.

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Author is refered to as Svātmārāma in the colophon (f. 34r) and is also known to go by this name.

Summary:

Manuscript used for consultation on the subject of Haṭhayoga and is part of a larger treatise dealing with the Nātha school of Śaiva philosophy, techniques of liberation, and bodily purification.

Notes:

Colophon: iti śrīsahajānaṃdaciṃtāmaṇināsvātmārāmayogīdreṇa viracitāyāṃ haṭapadīpikāyāṃ nādopāsanaṃ nāmacaturthopadeśaśeṣaḥ // śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu // (f. 34r).

Title from title page (f. 1r); alternate title Haṭhavidyā from incipit.

Written in 6-12 lines per leaf.

34 leaves foliated 1-34, upper left and lower right verso.

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant phrase, symbols, and words highlighted in red through some of the manuscript; double red lines mark vertical margins on first folio (f. 1r).

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 3599 (UP 1931).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1931

OCLC:

821070773