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Maṇḍaladevatāpūjana, 1670. = मण्डलदेवतापूजन, १६७०.

Author/Creator:
Gadādhara.
Publication:
1670.
१६७०.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
1 item (4 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 23 cm
Contained In:
Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 187
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Other Title:
Liṅgatobhadralakṣaṇa.
Subjects:
Sacred space.
Idols and images.
India.
Idols and images -- India.
Mandala.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
Hindu gods.
Puja (Hinduism).
Sacred space -- India.
Form/Genre:
Manuals (instructional materials)
Diagrams.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.
Language:
In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
Biography/History:
A seventeenth-century author, son of Vāmanadīkṣita.
Summary:
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.
Contents:
(Part 1:) Maṇḍaladevatāpūjana
(Part 2:) Liṅgatobhadralakṣaṇa.
Notes:
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.
Penn Provenance:
Written in the pilgrimage city of Vārāṇasī near the temple of Viśveśvara dedicated to the Hindu deity Śiva (f. 4v).
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 3477 (UP 187).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 187
Contributor:
Vāsudeva, Sārasvata, scribe.
OCLC:
820003735