Maṇḍaladevatāpūjana, 1670. = मण्डलदेवतापूजन, १६७०.
- Publication:
- 1670.
१६७०. - Format/Description:
- Manuscript
1 item (4 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 23 cm - Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 187
- Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3p26q42m - Status/Location:
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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