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Title

Śatarudrīyamahātma
शतरुद्रीयमहात्म

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 1998
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9970393843503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/953529780
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7039384

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Manuscript contains adhyāyas 26-50 of a larger work called the Śivarahasya, which is itself part of a work on Tantra called the Rudrayāmalatantra. It is dedicated to the praise and veneration of the Hindu deity Śiva, especially in his form of Rudra (the howler). Presented as a discourse between Śiva and his divine son Skanda (also known as Kārttikeya).

Notes

• Formerly likely part of the same larger manuscript as Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1997.
   
• Title from incipit (f. 1v).
   
• Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 54 leaves foliated 1-54, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant words, letters, phrases are highlighted in red.
   

Extent

1 item (54 leaves) : 12 x 28 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīśivarahasye daśamāṃśe śivagaurīsaṃvāde paṃcāśodhyāyaḥ 50 śrūsāṃbasadāsivārpaṇam astu // (f. 54r).

Subjects topical

• Hinduism--Prayers and devotions
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Śaivism
• Tantrism
• Kārttikeya (Hindu deity)
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Rudra (Hindu deity)

Genres

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

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