MS. Sansk. c. 120

MSS. Sansk. c.

NOTE: This record has yet to be fully checked.

Puraścaraṇavidhi, 18th cent.?

The Puraścaraṇavidhi, a brief treatise on Tantric rites

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: [1] namo Gaṇeśāya | atha Puraścaraṇavidhiḥ | puraścaraṇasaṃyatno mantro hi phāladāyakaḥ | kiṃ homair kiṃ---paiś caiva kiṃ mantranyāsavistaraiḥ ǁ 1 ǁ vīryahīno yathā dehī sarvakarmasu na kṣamaḥ | puraścaraṇahīno ’pi tathā mantraḥ prakīrtitaḥ ǁ 2 ǁ

Explicit: [9v] iti Puraścaraṇavidhiḥ samāptaḥ |

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: ii + 9 + xli

Dimensions (binding): 31.1 × 15.9 cm.

Condition

parts of ff. 1 and 2 are missing.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

History

Origin: 18th cent.?

probably about a. d. 1750, but it may be more modern.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 354).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:

Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1466, pp. 269-270

Availability

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Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

Moriz Winternitz and Arthur Berriedale Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1905), no. 1466, pp. 269-270

Funding of Cataloguing

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