Details

Subjects:

Yantras.
Jainism.
Tīrthaṅkaras.

Form/Genre:

Diagrams.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

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.

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.

Penn Provenance:

Gift of Brian Zahn, circa 1999, originally from West India.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Indic 15

OCLC:

811253557