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Title

Other related names

• Divākara Vajhe, scribe

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9934319913503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/420229768
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3431991

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Summary

Mantra and breath exercise called ajapājapa; starts with the practice of the three common breath exercises (prāṇāyāma) and especially focuses on the mantra haṃsa.

Notes

• Title from third line of text (f. 1r); alternate title Ajapājapa from marginal note, bottom left (f. 1v)
   
• Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.
   
• Incipit: (f. 1r): śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ prāṇāyāmaṁ kṛtvā adya sūryodayād ārabhya śvaḥ sūryodayaparyaṁtaṁ ṣaṭśatādhikam ekaviṁśatisahasrasaṁkhyākaḥ ajapāgāyatrīmantrasya
   
• Explicit: (f. 1v): brahmaraṁdhre guruṁ dhyātvā gurave sahasraṁ nivedayāmi evaṁ samarpayet
   
• Dated 13 śuklapakṣa of Āśvīna, śaka 1769 (Friday, October 22, 1847, f. 1v).
   
• Scribe is Divākara Vajhe (f. 1v).
   
• One mistake blotched out with black.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Meditation--Hinduism
• Hindu mantras
• Tantrism

Genres

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

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