Text to be used in private or public meditation and prayer in honor and worship of the Hindu Tantric goddess Vagalā, giving one thousand names of the goddess in the form of mantras. Text is incomplete with first folio missing.
Title from colophon (f. 16v).; Written in 7-10 lines per leaf.; 15 leaves foliated 2-16, upper left and lower right verso.; Scribe is Lakṣmīdatta (f. 16v).; Colophon: iti śrī utkaṇṭaśaveranāgendraparāyaṇatantre ṣoḍaśasahasre viṣṇuśakrasamvāde śrīvagalāsahasranāmasaṃpūrṇa [2 dotted circles] samvat 1906 [1 dotted circle] śubham [2 dotted circles] candrāṅkarasasaṃyukte vatsareravivāso lakṣṃīdatena likhitaṃ pītānāmasahasūkam [1 dotted circle] (f. 16v).; Dated saṃvat 1906 (1849) (f. 16v).; Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.; Non-Latin script record.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390
The Penn Libraries makes materials accessible to improve information equity and enhance teaching, research,
and learning. See our Sensitive Materials Statement
for more information.