Details

Other Title:

Sarvatobhadramaṇḍaladevatāpaddhati.

Subjects:

Idols and images.
Mandala.
Hinduism.
India.
Hindu mantras.
Mandala -- Hinduism.
Varuṇa (Hindu deity).
Siva (Hindu deity).
Vishnu (Hindu deity).
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
Idols and images -- India.
Homa (Rite).

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Diagrams.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a manual (paddhati) for consultation by priest or priestly artisan for the purpose of drawing out a sacred diagram (maṇḍala) in a square shape. A number of Hindu and Vedic deities (such as Viṣṇu, Śiva, and Varuṇa) are evoked and installed in various sections of the diagram, typically during fire (homa) rites.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1r); alternate title Sarvatobhadramaṇḍaladevatāpaddhati supplied by cataloger; second alternate title Maṇḍaladevatā from colophon.
Written in 8-11 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1, 2-5, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti maṃḍaladevatāsamāptaḥ // (f. 5v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
Non-Latin script record.

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 3234 (UP 162).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 162

OCLC:

819409880