Śivaprāsādapiṇḍikā pratiṣṭhāpaddhati, circa 1700-1850.
शिवप्रासादपिण्डिका प्रतिष्ठापद्धति

Format:

Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Idols and images.

India.

Śiva (Hindu deity).

Śiva.

Śiva (Hindu deity).

Yantras.

Idols and images--India.

Rites and ceremonies--India.

Rites and ceremonies.

Genre:

manuals (instructional materials)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (23 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 26 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 132

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is an instruction manual (paddhati) for use by a priest, describing the installation of religious images of various Hindu deities used in ceremonies of worship and offering, especially those related to the deity Śiva.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1v).

Written in 13-14 lines per leaf.

23 leaves foliated 1-23, upper left and 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.

Yantra (sacred diagram) of an eight-petaled lotus flower with the name of the deity Brahmā at its center on front page of manuscript: it was part of a separate manuscript and used for backing of the first folio of main manuscript. There is a diagram on the verso of the reinforcement that is covered by the main text (f. 1v).

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 3136 (UP 132).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 132

OCLC:

816101025