Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9975391453503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/973954244
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7539145

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Summary

Primarily a collection of Tantric mantras (words or phrases of power) for use in rites and ceremonies dedicated to the Hindu deity Tvaritarudra, a god combining Rudra (a lower form of Śiva according to Tantric tradition) and his consort or divine energy (śakti) Tvarita (a lower form of the goddess Dūrgā). From a work called the Ratnakara.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 3v); alternate title Tvaritarudra from margin.
   
• Written in 3 lines per leaf.
   
• 3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Additions in margins of final folio (f. 3v).
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Tantrism
• Śaivism
• Rudra (Hindu deity)
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Hindu mantras
• Hinduism--Rituals--Texts
• Rites and ceremonies--India

Genres

• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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