Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958497563503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/816101024
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5849756

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Summary

Manuscript is an instruction manual (paddhati) for use by a priest, describing the installation of religious images of various Hindu deities used in ceremonies of worship and offering, especially those related to the deity Śiva.

Notes

• Title from incipit (f. 1v).
   
• Written in 13-14 lines per leaf.
   
• 23 leaves foliated 1-23, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   
• Yantra (sacred diagram) of an eight-petaled lotus flower with the name of the deity Brahmā at its center on front page of manuscript: it was part of a separate manuscript and used for backing of the first folio of main manuscript. There is a diagram on the verso of the reinforcement that is covered by the main text (f. 1v).
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

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Subjects topical

• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Yantras
• Idols and images--India
• Rites and ceremonies--India

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 132: Śivaprāsādapiṇḍikā pratiṣṭhāpaddhati are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

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• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — diagram on f. 1r