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Oṃ gaṃ, circa 1700-1850.
ओं गं
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2004
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Yantras.
- Hindu mantras.
- Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity).
- Gaṇeśa.
- Genre:
- diagrams
- prayers (compositions)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (1 leaf) : paper ; 22 x 22 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2004
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Stylized lotus diagram (yantra) for prosperity and used in ritual and prayer; likely to the Hindu god Gaṇeśa typically associated with the mantra Oṃ gaṃ found at its center; mantras dedicated to related deities such as Umā and Maheśa as well as mantras to Vedic deities such as Indra and Soma are placed throughout the diagram; contains an entire Sanskrit syllabary circling the lotus flower.
- Notes:
- Title from center of diagram.
- Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out.
- Written on European paper with watermark (Russo?).
- Non-Latin script record.
- 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 4622 (UP 2004).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2004
- OCLC:
- 760296198
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