Details

Other Title:

Sarvatobhadramaṇḍala

Subjects:

Idols and images.
India.
Idols and images -- India.
Mandala.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
Hindu gods.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript used and consulted by priests on the creation of a mystical diagram (maṇḍala) referred to in this text as Auspiciousness of all sides (sarvatobhadra), in order to draw the essence of a deity into an image, which will serve as the god's vehicle (vāhana) on earth. Manuscript lacks an ending.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1v); alternate title Sarvatobhadramaṇḍala supplied by cataloger.
Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes; some corrections and additions in margins; metrical accents in red throughout.

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 4654 (UP 161).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 161.

OCLC:

954468565