Ācamyaprāṇanāyamya

Ācamyaprāṇanāyamya is collection of various Tantric works. The text is a manual for prayer and rituals by a priest. This Ms. contains the following works Bhūtaśuddhiprāṇapratiṣṭhā starting from (f.2a–7a), Navārṇavamantra and its Nyāsa starting from (f.7b–10b), Saptaśatikanyānyāsavidhi starting from (f.10b) also an unidentified section starting from (f.15a-18b) which contains evokement of various female Hindu deities as well as Vedic deities like Agni, Vāyu, and Sūrya. The text contains various stages of rituals like placement of idol followed by Prāṇapratiṣṭhā imbulking it with the life force of the deity transforming it into a sacred object of worship. This Ms. is written in 7 lines per folio. Cover and back page are blank. Title present in the beginning of (f.1b). Mistakes are covered with yellow or gray at various places. Orange powder rubbed over some invocations, headings and significant text. Marginal corrections and additions in some folios especially in (f.16a). The Ms. was copied in Mathurā on the banks of the Yamunā River near the Rām Ghāṭ by scribe Putranihāla Maṇī or Nihāla Maṇī. It appears the Ms. is written by the same scribe of UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 463. This Ms. may have been physically housed with Item 461, 463 and 464 at an earlier time according to the colenda library cataloger.