Maṇḍaladevatāpūjana, 1670
मण्डलदेवतापूजन, १६७०
- Description
- 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.
- Creator
- Gadādhara
- Vāsudeva, Sārasvata (scribe)
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- manuals (instructional materials)
- diagrams
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit
- Date
- 1670
- Language
- Sanskrit
- Subject
- Sacred space
- Idols and images
- Idols and images -- India
- Mandala
- Rites and ceremonies -- India
- Rites and ceremonies
- Hindu gods
- Puja (Hinduism)
- Sacred space -- India
- Geographic Subject
- India
- Collection
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts
- Extent
- 1 item (4 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 23 cm
- Notes
- Table of contents: (Part 1:) Maṇḍaladevatāpūjana -- (Part 2:) Liṅgatobhadralakṣaṇa.
- A seventeenth-century author, son of Vāmanadīkṣita.
- 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.
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3p26q42m
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 187
- Provenance
- Written in the pilgrimage city of Vārāṇasī near the temple of Viśveśvara dedicated to the Hindu deity Śiva (f. 4v).
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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