Citrabandhastotra, circa 1700-1850
चित्रबन्धस्तोत्र, १७००-१८५०

Description
Jaina manuscript for private use and recitation employing text, diagrams (yantras), and mantras to form "picture poems" (citrabandha) for use in meditation and prayer, especially in praise of the Jinas or Tīrthankaras.
Form
manuscripts (documents)
diagrams
Manuscripts, Sanskrit
Date
1700
Language
Sanskrit
Subject
Yantras
Jainism
Tīrthaṅkaras
Extent
1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 26 cm
Notes
Title from colophon (f. 2v).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
6 leaves foliated 1-5, [6], lower right verso.
Colophon: iti citrabaṃdhastotra (f. 2v).
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 red line.
Non-Latin script record.
In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
Related works
Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3dr56
Also listed in
Penn Libraries Catalog
Physical Location
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Indic 15
Provenance
Gift of Brian Zahn, circa 1999, originally from West India.
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Resource Type
Text

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