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• bibid: 9934320023503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/406564218
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3432002

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Summary

Description of how to draw the ahicakra, a Tantric diagram; a small diagram is given as a table with 28 numbers (f. 2r).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 2r); alternate Ahicakra title from rubric (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 9-10 lines per leaf; totals 25 lines.
   
• Mistakes blotched out with black, marginal corrections.
   
• Incipit: (f. 1r): śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ahicakraṁ pravakṣāmi yaśca sarvajñabhāvitaṁ dravyaṁ svalpaṁ tathā śūnyaṁ yena jānāti sādhakā //1// (f. 1r).
   
• Explicit: iti mantreṇa ṣaṇmāsaṁ japet trisaṁdhyaṁ nidhiprāptīr bhavatī // (f. 2r).
   
• Colophon (f. 2r): itī brahmayāmale ahībalacakraṁ
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hinduism--Rituals--Texts
• Tantric art
• Tantrism

Genres

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

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v-2r — Table, f. 2r