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

Title

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5831955
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5831955

Publisher

Language

Summary

Jaina manuscript for private use and recitation employing text, diagrams (yantras), and mantras to form "picture poems" (citrabandha) for use in meditation and prayer, especially in praise of the Jinas or Tīrthankaras.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 2v).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 6 leaves foliated 1-5, [6], 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; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Provenance

• Gift of Brian Zahn, circa 1999, originally from West India.
   

Subjects topical

• Yantras
• Jainism
• Tīrthaṅkaras

Genres

• Diagrams
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

Licenses

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• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 2v-3r — Diagrams, f. 3r
• fol. 3v-4r — Diagrams, f. 3v and f. 4r
• fol. 4v-5r — Diagrams, f. 4v and f. 5r
• fol. 5v-6r — Diagrams, f. 5v and f. 6r