Details

Subjects:

Idols and images.
India.
Idols and images -- India.
Jainism.
Worship (Jainism).
Jaina mantras.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Treatises.
Prayers.
Diagrams.
Scrolls (information artifacts)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Jainanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is a series of various instructional texts to be consulted by a Jain monk or other figure installing images for use in Jaina rites of image worship (pūjā). Has an image towards the end of the roll depicting a multi-leveled maṇḍala (circle) with numerous mantras dedicated to Jaina deities.

Notes:

Title from colophon (1r).
Colophon: iti pratiṣṭhādevatāvisarjanamantraḥ // ba // śrī // (1r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; borders drawn in heavy red line.
Cloth scroll.
Non-Latin script record.

Penn Provenance:

Gift of Brian Zahn.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Indic 7

OCLC:

820377842