MS. Sansk. e. 84

MSS. Sansk. e.

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Bhūtaśuddhi and Prāṇapratiṣṭhā, 18th cent.?

The Bhūtaśuddhi and Prāṇapratiṣṭhā, being a short treatise on Tantric rites

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: [1v] śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ | tatra yādādijānuparyaṃtaṃ prithivīsthānaṃ caturasraṃ vajralāṃchitaṃ pītavarṇaṃ brahmadaivataṃ nivṛttikalādhiṣṭitaṃ laṃbījayuktaṃ dhyātvā jānvādinābhiparyaṃtaṃ mayāsthānam arddhacaṃdrākāraṃ śuklavarṇaṃ śṛṃgadvaye ’pi padmalāṃchitaṃ biṣṇudaivataṃ pratiṣṭhākalādhiṣṭitaṃ vaṃvījayuktaṃ dhyātvā |

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: ii + 10 + xli

Dimensions (binding): 19.7 × 10.5 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

History

Origin: 18th cent.?

possibly about a. d. 1750.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 358).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:

Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1468, p. 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. 1468, p. 270

Funding of Cataloguing

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