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IO SAN 3748

Record Id:
032-003720464
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TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
IO SAN 3748
Title:
Vijñānabhairava
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
foll. 9
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Sanskrit
Scripts:
Devanagari
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1799
Era:
CE
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India Office Library

IO SAN 3748

Vijñānabhairava

Contents

Language(s): Sanskrit

Title: Vijñānabhairava

A tract in 161 verses from the Rudrayāmala-Tantra.

There are some glosses in Telugu character, rarely Devanāgarī, on foll. 1v to 3 (22v to 25 modern pagination). On fol. 1(22 modern) in a later hand.

Prefixed is a leaf with the title in a still later hand.

The Ms. is not correct.

Incipit: śrīdevyuvāca | śrutaṃ deva mayā sarvaṃ rūdrayāmalasambhavaṃ trikabhedamaśeṣeṇa sārātsāraṃ vibhāgaśaḥ ||1|| adyāpi na nivṛtto me saṃśayaḥ parameśvara | kiṃrūpaṃ tatvato deva śabdarāśikalātmakaṃ ||2|| f. 22v
Explicit: sarvaśaktiprabhedānāṃ hṛdayaṃ jñānamadya ca | ityuktvā nanditā devī kaṇṭhe lagnā śivasya tu ||161|| iti śrīrūdrayāmale tantre vijñānabhairavayogaśāstraṃ samāptaṃ | śubhaṃ | f. 30v
"idaṃ samāpitaṃ śāstraṃ yogasyopakṛtau kṣamam adhyakṣasyechayā prītyā kṛtine kṛṣṇaśāṃstriṇā || f. 22r "

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: foll. 9
Dimensions (leaf): 33.3 × 12 cm.
Dimensions (written): 28 × 8 cm.
Foliation:

Devanāgarī 1-9, modern 22-30.

Condition

Good

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 8

7 to 9 lines in a page.

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1700 -1799

Provenance and Acquisition

India Office Library, Apr.28, 1924

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Surrogates

microfilm IOL 210

Bibliography