The manuscript is full of mantras with the tantric preamble of ṛṣiḥ, chandas, devatā, bijaṁ, śaktiḥ , kīlakaṁ and viniyogaḥ. But what is unusual is that where these mantra preambles occur there is an annotation in red ink and as far as I can see it is the same annotation
ṛṣiḥ has annotation śi, chandas has annotation mu,
devatā has
annotation sa, bijaṁ has annotation gu,
śaktiḥ has
annotation mā , kīlakaṁ has annotation nā
viniyogaḥ has
annotation sa.
And one mantra has
in addition to these, sthane with annotation mū,
varṇāḥ
with annotation sa, svaraḥ with annotation kaṁ
Does anyone have any idea what these annotations are. I'm particularly interested in finding out, because I've been unsuccessfully trying to get any information on the tantric preamble of ṛṣiḥ, chandas, devatā, bijaṁ, śaktiḥ , kīlakaṁ viniyogaḥ for over 20 years. I've only seen the most basic information (which seems mostly like conjectures) with no references to texts. Such as a tantric text that says your supposed to repeat this preamble before mantras..
In the first 120 folios you can see the annotations in these folios
I'm only giving references to the occurances in the first 120 folios but they also occur farther on in the manuscripts.
folio 2b pdf page 6
folio 10b pdf page 23
folio 11b and 12a pdf pages 25-26
folio 12b-13a pdf pages 27-28
folio 21b pdf page 45 regular annotations + sthane with annotation mū, varṇāḥ with annotation sa, svaraḥ with annotation kaṁ
folio 46a pdf page 93
folio 55a pdf page 111
57a pdf page 115
folio 64b pdf page 130
folio 67a pdf page 135
folio 71a pdf page 141
folios 86b and 87a pdf pages 174 175
folio 89b pdf page 180
folio 92a pdf page 185
folio 94b-95a pdf page 190-191
folio 98 pdf page 197
folio 115a 115b pdf pages 231-232
folio 118 pdf page 237
folio 120a and 120b pdf pages 241-242
Thanks,