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Kumārasaṃhitā, circa 1700-1850.
कुमारसंहिता
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 748
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Hindu mantras.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- India.
- Tantrism.
- Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
- Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity).
- Gaṇeśa.
- Śiva (Hindu deity).
- Śiva.
- SÌiva (Hindu deity).
- Genre:
- prayers (compositions)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (27 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 21 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 748
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript is used for contemplation, prayer, and recitation, and is a treatment of Hindu mantras to be used in Tantric rituals; narrated by the god Śiva and dedicated to Heramba, a form of the deity Gaṇeśa, popular in the state of Maharashtra.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 27v).
- Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
- 27 leaves foliated 1-27, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti kumārasaṃhitāyāṃ rahasyātirahasyaṃ nāmaṃdarāmodhyāyaḥ śrīheraṃbārparṇam astu (f. 27v).
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red 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 4434 (UP 748).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 748
- OCLC:
- 880675086
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