Brahmayāmale ahībalacakra, 1800s; ब्रह्मयामले अहीबलचक्र,१८००-१८९९

Date:

1800

Description:

Description of how to draw the ahicakra, a Tantric diagram; a small diagram is given as a table with 28 numbers (f. 2r).

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Hinduism -- Rituals -- Texts; Hinduism -- Rituals; Tantric art; Tantrism

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

diagrams; manuals (instructional materials); Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 item (2 leaves) : paper; 11 x 26 cm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2r); alternate Ahicakra title from rubric (f. 1r).; Written in 9-10 lines per leaf; totals 25 lines.; Mistakes blotched out with black, marginal corrections.; Incipit: (f. 1r): śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ahicakraṁ pravakṣāmi yaśca sarvajñabhāvitaṁ dravyaṁ svalpaṁ tathā śūnyaṁ yena jānāti sādhakā //1// (f. 1r).; Explicit: iti mantreṇa ṣaṇmāsaṁ japet trisaṁdhyaṁ nidhiprāptīr bhavatī // (f. 2r).; Colophon (f. 2r): itī brahmayāmale ahībalacakraṁ; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī).

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 694

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts