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Maṇḍaladevatāpūjana, 1670.
मण्डलदेवतापूजन
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 187
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Gadādhara.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Sacred space.
- Idols and images.
- India.
- Idols and images--India.
- Mandala.
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Hindu gods.
- Puja (Hinduism).
- Sacred space--India.
- Genre:
- manuals (instructional materials)
- diagrams
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Penn Provenance:
- Written in the pilgrimage city of Vārāṇasī near the temple of Viśveśvara dedicated to the Hindu deity Śiva (f. 4v).
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (4 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 23 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 187
- Other Title:
- Liṅgatobhadralakṣaṇa.
- Place of Publication:
- 1670.
- १६७०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Biography/History:
- A seventeenth-century author, son of Vāmanadīkṣita.
- Summary:
- Manuscript is used for private or public veneration and prayer and contemplation. The manuscript consists of two sections; the first relates to the worship of a large circle (maṇḍala) drawn on the floor and containing various Hindu deities, while the second, shorter part, concerns drawing lines in different patterns in a square and enclosing different kinds of symbols such as a flower.
- Contents:
- (Part 1:) Maṇḍaladevatāpūjana
- (Part 2:) Liṅgatobhadralakṣaṇa.
- Notes:
- Scribe is Sārasvata Vāsudeva (f. 4v).
- Title from internal colophon (f. 3v); second title Liṅgatobhadralakṣaṇa from final colophon (f. 4v).
- Written in 9 lines per leaf.
- 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti liṃgatobhaḍralakṣaṇaṃ // mādhavarapasite pakṣe dvādaśyāṃ saumyavāsare // gadādhareṇa likhitaṃ liṃgatobhadralakṣaṇaṃ //1// saṃvat 1927 siddhārthīsaṃvatsare vāsudevākhyena sārasvatena likhitam idaṃ pustakaṃ kāśyāṃ viśveśvaraśivasaṃnidhau // rāmāya rāmabhadrāya rāmacaṃdrāya vedhasai / raghunāthāyanāthāya sītāyāḥ pataye namaḥ // śubham astu // (f. 4v).
- Dated saṃvat 1727 (1670) (f. 4v).
- 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 black line.
- 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 3477 (UP 187).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 187
- OCLC:
- 820003735
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