Mahāpratyaṅgirāstotra - Śaka 1680 [1758]

Text describing and praising the goddess Mahāpratyaṅgirā, a terrible form of a goddess connected to the Śarabha mythology of Śiva who helped to pacify Narasiṃha, the lion avatāra of Viṣṇu; text takes the form of a dialogue between Śiva and Pārvatī. Contains mantras used to ask favors of the goddesses to defeat enemies and to protect one's family; contains a description of the goddess as one who drinks blood and eats flesh and who is equated with many other major goddesses such as Caṇḍī; there is part of a second manuscript (f. 6-7) that is likely the same text as the first. Cotton and wood pulp paper; fair condition, unbound. 8 x 29 cm; 12 folios; newspaper wrapping. Notes and numbers written on manuscript by modern Bengali scholars: Kra: 2994; Vi: 209; 168 naḥ. Scribe: Yajñeśvara Śarmmaṇa.