Mudrālakṣaṇāni, circa 1700-1850.
मुद्रालक्षणानि

Format:

Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Rites and ceremonies--India.

Rites and ceremonies.

India.

Gesture--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Gesture.

Mudrās (Hinduism).

Puja (Hinduism).

Lakshmī (Hindu deity).

Lakshmī.

Narasiṃha (Hindu deity).

Narasiṃha.

Hindu mantras.

Tantrism.

Genre:

prayers (compositions)

manuals (instructional materials)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (6 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 24 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 590

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used for private recitation and rituals involving the worship of Hindu deities, especially Lakṣmī and Nārasiṃha, the man-lion avatar of the deity Viṣṇu. The work is especially focused on hand gestures (mudrās) and other rites such as bathing, and the recitation of mantras, associated with Tantric worship, serving as a kind of manual or guidebook.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 6r).

Written in 10-11 lines per leaf.

6 leaves foliated 1-6, lower right verso.

Colophon: iti mudrālakṣaṇāni // (f. 6r).

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; some significant syllables, words, phrases, and numbers highlighted in red; border colored with yellow powder.

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 4535 (UP 590).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 590

OCLC:

857174216