Praśnacakra circa 1750-1899

Contributor:

Śivacandradeva Śarmma (scribe)

Date:

1750

Description:

Sacred diagram (yantra) of a lotus flower intended for making astrological forecasts and with various names of Vaiṣṇava deities and mythological figures, especially those related to the epic the Rāmāyaṇa such as Rāma, Sītā, and the demon Rāvaṇa written into the leaves of the flower. May be associated with Vaiṣṇava tantrism.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Hindu astrology; Yantras; Vaishnavism; Tantrism; Flowers in art -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism; Flowers in art; Hinduism

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials); Drawings (visual works); Facsimiles; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 leaf) : illustrations

Rights:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Rights Note:

Reproduced from the original with permission of the Mahesh Charitable Trust under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license.

Notes:

Written in 4 lines per folio.; 1 leaf.; Title from title page (f. 1r).; Scribe is Śivacandradeva Śarmma (f. 1v).; Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; paper treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect from insects; blue pigment used for coloring the lotus flower.; Dimensions of original manuscript: 12 x 19 cm.; Reproduced from the original with permission of the Mahesh Charitable Trust under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license.; Notes and numbers written in a modern Bengali hand: Kra: 6317; Jyotiṣa: 317.; In Sanskrit (Bengali)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Rāmamālā Library 5566