MS. Sansk. d. 38 (R)
MSS. Sansk. d.
NOTE: This record has yet to be fully checked.
Svacohandalalitabhairava Mahātantra, A. D. 1068.
Contents
Summary of Contents: The Svacchandalalitabhairava Mahātantra, treating the usual Tantric topics in the form of a dialogue between Devī and Bhairava, in fifteen paṭalas, of which this MS. contains 5-10 entirely, a small part of 11 and 12, and the colophons of 4 and 15.
Language(s): Sanskrit.
Physical Description
Form: pothī
Support: Palm-leaves, held together by two boards and a string passing through a hole to the left of the centre.
Extent: + +
Dimensions (binding): × cm.
Condition
ff. 1–60, 97–159, 162–166, 168–171, 177, 180 + an unknown number are lost. The rest is well preserved.
Hand(s)
Nepalese.
ibid.: rājāśrīpradyumnadevasya rājye Janārddanasiṃhena svapustakaṃ likhitam iti |
History
Origin: A. D. 1068.
last leaf, verso: saṃvat 183 ⟨1063⟩ māghakṛṣṇapratipada śaneśvara (?) dine |
Record Sources
Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1460, pp. 266-267
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. 1460, pp. 266-267
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