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Maṇḍapakuṇḍasiddhi, circa 1700-1850. = मण्डपकुण्डसिद्धि, १७००-१८५०.

Author/Creator:
Viṭṭhaladīkṣita, active 17th century.
Publication:
circa 1700-1850.
१७००-१८५०.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
1 item (5 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 26 cm
Contained In:
Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 146
Status/Location:
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Subjects:
Sacred space.
Altars.
India.
Hindu architecture.
Altars -- India.
Sacred space -- India.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
Form/Genre:
Manuals (instructional materials)
Diagrams.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.
Language:
In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
Biography/History:
Son of Varaśarman.
Summary:
Manuscript is a manual, with diagrams, to be used by a priest, outlining the rules for the erection and construction of altars and halls that are to be the location of sacrificial rites. Manuscript is incomplete but contains two diagrams (yantra) of an eight-pointed star and a hexagram, both in red ink (f. 6r).
Notes:
Title from colophon (f. 7r).
Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.
5 leaves foliated 1-3, 6-7, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti viṭaladīkṣitaviracitāmaṃḍapakuṃḍasiddhiḥ // samāptā // yādṛśaṃ pustakaṃ dṛṣṭvā tādṛśaṃ likhitaṃ veśahanakā etha śākīṇapī arī paraśuddhamaśuddhaṃ vā mama doṣo na dīyate // (f. 7r).
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.
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 5351 (UP 146).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 146
OCLC:
819407828