Sarvatobhadradevatāvāhana, circa 1700-1850.
सर्वतोभद्रदेवतावाहन

Format:

Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Idols and images.

India.

Idols and images--India.

Mandala.

Rites and ceremonies--India.

Rites and ceremonies.

Hindu gods.

Genre:

manuals (instructional materials)

treatises

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (3 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 22 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 161

Other Title:

Sarvatobhadramaṇḍala

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used and consulted by priests on the creation of a mystical diagram (maṇḍala) referred to in this text as Auspiciousness of all sides (sarvatobhadra), in order to draw the essence of a deity into an image, which will serve as the god's vehicle (vāhana) on earth. Manuscript lacks an ending.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1v); alternate title Sarvatobhadramaṇḍala supplied by cataloger.

Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.

3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.

Mistakes; some corrections and additions in margins; metrical accents in red throughout.

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 4654 (UP 161).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 161.

OCLC:

954468565