Brahmayāmale ahībalacakra, 1800s.
ब्रह्मयामले अहीबलचक्र

Format:

Manuscript

Standardized Title:

Tantras. Brahmayāmala. Ahibalacakra.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Hinduism--Rituals--Texts.

Hinduism.

Hinduism--Rituals.

Tantric art.

Tantrism.

Genre:

Texts.

diagrams

manuals (instructional materials)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 26 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 694

Other Title:

Ahicakra.

Place of Publication:

1800s.

१८००-१८९९.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī).

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

Cited in:

Listed in H. I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 4494 (UP 694).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 694

OCLC:

406564219