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Vaśīkaraṇādiprayoga circa 1750-1899.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Web Rāmamālā Library 7406
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- India.
- Tantrism.
- Yantras.
- Genre:
- manuals (instructional materials)
- diagrams
- facsimiles (reproductions)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (5 leaves) : illustrations
- Contained In:
- Rāmamālā Library 7406
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1750-1899.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Bengali)
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Summary:
- Kind of manual that is a collection of different sacred diagrams (yantras) and instructional tantras, with details about the performance of rites, rituals, and ceremonies intended to help gain control over people and to form different kinds of relationships with friends, husbands, kings, and others.
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Comilla, Bangladesh Rāmamālā Library, Mahesh Charitable Trust
- Written in 6-8 lines per folio.
- 5 leaves foliated 3-4, [5-7], middle right verso.
- Title from cover notes.
- Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; paper treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect from insects.
- Dimensions of original manuscript: 9 x 37 cm.
- Reproduced from the original with permission of the Mahesh Charitable Trust under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license.
- Notes and numbers written in a modern Bengali hand: Kra: 5013; Tantram: 515.
- OCLC:
- 921197299
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