Ṣaṭcakraṭīkā circa 1750-1899.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Rāmavallabha.

Contributor:

Rāmavallabha Śarmmaṇa, scribe.

Śivadāsa Śarmmaṇa, scribe.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Tantrism.

Chakra (Hinduism).

Śaivism.

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Genre:

commentaries

facsimiles (reproductions)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (30 leaves) : illustrations

Contained In:

Rāmamālā Library 7521

Other Title:

Ṣaṭacakravarṇana.

Place of Publication:

circa 1750-1899.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Bengali)

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Summary:

Manuscript is comprised of three texts, likely part of a family library. The first and third are commentaries about the Ṣaṭcakra, a work illuminating six centers of power located within the human body and associated with different types of meditation and Tantra; a second text is a version of the Gītā, but written from a Śaiva rather than Vaiṣṇava perspective, possibly the Śivagītā.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Comilla, Bangladesh Rāmamālā Library, Mahesh Charitable Trust

Written in 3-9 lines per folio.

30 leaves foliated 1-16, 1-4, 3-12, middle right verso; there are five additional photos -- two are of the cover and three are of notes separating each text.

Title from internal colophon (f. 16v); title of second text Gītā from internal colophon (f. 4v); title of third text Ṣaṭacakravarṇana from cover.

Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; paper treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect from insects.

Dimensions of original manuscript: 9 x 52 cm.

Reproduced from the original with permission of the Mahesh Charitable Trust under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license.

Notes and numbers written in a modern Bengali hand: Kra: 1162; Vi: 182.

Scribe of first text is Rāmavallabha Śarmmaṇa (f. 16v); scribe of second text is Śivadāsa Śarmmaṇa (f. 4v).

OCLC:

921248003