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Tantra
[96.
B - Descriptive Catalogues :___ The Ms. of कुमारीपूजन noticed in I. O. Cat. No. 5739 is
quite different from our Ms.
कुलप्रदीप
Kulapradipa No.97
474.
1895-98. Size.-8 in. by 41d in. Extent.-- 33 leaves ; 16 lines to a page ; 39 letters to a line. Description.-Country paper ; Devanagari characters; hand-writing
irreguler, but legible ; two lines in black ink on each border ; benedictory phrase, names of speakers, topicendings and colophons are tinged with red pigment; paper old and musty. It is a treatise in verse dealing with the Tantric doctrines of Kaulas and has seven chapters. It is very incorrect.
For a fuller description see I. O.Catalogue, Ms. No. 2569. Age. - Samvat 1885. Author.-- Gosvami Śivānandācārya. Begins.- fol. 10
श्रीगणेशाय नमः श्रीगुरुं प्रणम्य प्रथमं ततो हि
गणाधिपं श्रीपरमदेवतांच मुदे महोपासककीलिकानां
निबंधमेकं रचयामि रम्यं १ ग्रंथेषु येधेषु सदाशिवन
सविस्तरः श्रीकौलमार्ग उक्तः प्रायः कलौ ते सुलभा न संति
ज्ञातं च तेषां परमं दुरायं २ etc.
