[RAS Hodgson MS 46] Ekallavīratantram [Caṇḍamahāroṣaṇatantram]

language : Sanskrit

date : C19th?

Palm leaf; 7 or 8 lines on each folio. Cowell and Eggeling describe this manuscript as “old”. In 25 paṭalas. Text begins: Evaṃ mayā śrutamekasminsamaye bhagavān vajrasatvaḥ – ityekallavīrākhye śrīcaṇḍamahāroṣaṇatantre tantrāvatāraṇapaṭalaḥ prathamaḥ – f.2r. It ends: ityekallavīraṃ nāma caṇḍamahāroṣaṇatantraṃ samāptaṃ || Manuscript acquired by Hodgson in Nepal. See p. 37 in Cowell, E. B. and Eggeling, J. ‘Catalogue of Buddhist Sanskrit manuscripts in the possession of the Royal Asiatic Society (Hodgson Collection)’, published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1875, Pt. 1, pp.1-56. Brian Houghton Hodgson, gift, 1835-6. Text in Sanskrit.