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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958608813503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/819409879
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5860881

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Summary

Manuscript is a manual (paddhati) for consultation by priest or priestly artisan for the purpose of drawing out a sacred diagram (maṇḍala) in a square shape. A number of Hindu and Vedic deities (such as Viṣṇu, Śiva, and Varuṇa) are evoked and installed in various sections of the diagram, typically during fire (homa) rites.

Notes

• Title from incipit (f. 1r); alternate title Sarvatobhadramaṇḍaladevatāpaddhati supplied by cataloger; second alternate title Maṇḍaladevatā from colophon.
   
• Written in 8-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 4 leaves foliated 1, 2-5, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu mantras
• Mandala--Hinduism
• Varun̥a (Hindu deity)
• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Vishnu (Hindu deity)
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Idols and images--India
• Homa (Rite)

Genres

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

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