Kālikāsahasranāmastotra, circa 1700-1850; कालिकासहस्रनामस्तोत्र,१७००-१८५०

Contributor:

Veṇīmādhava Puṇatāmakara (former owner)

Date:

1700

Description:

Manuscript is used for private or public recitation and prayer and is in praise and worship of the fierce Tantric goddess Kāli. Contains a narrative by the deity Śiva about the goddess. Front folio has a rough diagram of a yantra (mystical diagram) consisting of an eight-petaled lotus flower with two intersecting triangles in its center (f. 1r), possibly related to the goddess Kāli, with a second diagram of an eight-pointed star within a circle on the verso (f. 1v).

Language:

Sanskrit

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Veṇīmādhava Puṇatāmakara (f. 15v).

Subject:

Kālī (Hindu deity); Siva (Hindu deity); Hindu hymns, Sanskrit; Devotional literature, Sanskrit; Hinduism -- Prayers and devotions; Hindu mythology; Tantrism; Śaivism; Yantras

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Poems; Hymns; Prayers; Diagrams; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts; Devotional literature

Physical Description:

1 item (14 leaves) : paper; 9 x 18 cm

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 15r).; Written in 10-12 lines per leaf.; 14 leaves foliated 1-7, 9-15, upper left and lower right verso.; Colophon: iti śrīrudrayāmale kālikāsahasranāmar stautraṃ samāptaṃ // (f. 15r).; 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 drawn with double lines in black or red ink and some having cross hatching within.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts