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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5866136
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5866136

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Summary

Manuscript is a series of various instructional texts to be consulted by a Jain monk or other figure installing images for use in Jaina rites of image worship (pūjā). Has an image towards the end of the roll depicting a multi-leveled maṇḍala (circle) with numerous mantras dedicated to Jaina deities.

Notes

• Title from colophon (1r).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; borders drawn in heavy red line.
   
• Cloth scroll.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Provenance

• Gift of Brian Zahn.
   

Subjects topical

• Idols and images--India
• Jainism
• Worship (Jainism)
• Jaina mantras

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Treatises
• Prayers
• Diagrams
• Scrolls (information artifacts)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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