Mṛtyuñjayavidhāna, 1737.
मृत्युञ्जयविधान

Format:

• Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Śaivism.
• Śiva (Hindu deity).
• Siva (Hindu deity).
• Hindu mantras.
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.

Genre:

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

Physical Description:

1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 24 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 576

Place of Publication:

• 1737.
• १७३७.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used as an aid for private or public recitation and prayer and contains mantras dedicated to different manifestations of the Hindu god Śiva, especially Tryaṁbaka (the three-eyed one); many mantras are drawn from Vedic sources.

Notes:

• Title from colophon (f. 2v).
• Written in 11-13 lines per leaf.
• 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left verso and upper left recto.
• Colophon: iti mṛtyuṃjayavidhānaṃ pūrttim agamat // śake 1659 bhādravadi 9 some likhitaṃ śubhaṃ // rāmaḥ // (f. 2v).
• Dated śake 1659 bhādravadi 9 (Wednesday, September 18, 1737) (f. 2r).
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables and phrases highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with single black line.

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 4538 (UP 576).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 576

OCLC:

855278623