Vaśīkaraṇādiprayoga circa 1750-1899

Date:

1750

Description:

Kind of manual that is a collection of different sacred diagrams (yantras) and instructional tantras, with details about the performance of rites, rituals, and ceremonies intended to help gain control over people and to form different kinds of relationships with friends, husbands, kings, and others.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Rites and ceremonies -- India; Rites and ceremonies; Tantrism; Yantras

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (5 leaves) : illustrations

Geographic Subject:

India

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 6-8 lines per folio.; 5 leaves foliated 3-4, [5-7], middle right verso.; Title from cover notes.; Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; paper treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect from insects.; Dimensions of original manuscript: 9 x 37 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: 5013; Tantram: 515.; In Sanskrit (Bengali)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Rāmamālā Library 7406