Paper sleeve, library binding.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Condition", "value": "A damaged fragment of the right side of a folio." }, { "label": "Script", "value": "
The Pañcarakṣā<\/i> corpus (\"Five Protections\") consists of the Mahāpratisarā<\/i>, Mahāmāyūrī<\/i>, Mahāsāhasrapramardanī<\/i>, Mahāmantrānusāriṇī<\/i>, and Mahāśītavatī<\/i>. The earliest evidence for texts grouped together as the \"Five Great Dhāraṇīs\" comes from Tibetan catalogues around 800 CE, but this compendium is somewhat different from the surviving Sanskrit collection, which is preserved in manuscripts dating back to the eleventh century. These scriptures include spells, enumerations of benefits and ritual instructions for use. With the course of time all of them became deified and five related goddesses emerged. It is, however, important to note that the texts themselves do not have any references to these goddesses. This manuscript consists of just a fragment of the right side of the second folio from the Mahāsāhasrapramardanī<\/i>, probably to be dated to the 11th century (on paleographical grounds and on the basis of various features of the layout such as the marginal frame lines and the subdivision in sections; see, for comparison, MS Add. 1688<\/a>). <\/p>"
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"label": "Title",
"value": "Pañcarakṣā"
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"label": "Author(s) of the Record",
"value": "Daniele Cuneo and Camillo Formigatti, CUDL PID Workflow"
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"label": "Material",
"value": "Palm leaf. Folio height: 5.1 cm, width: 35 (fragmentary) cm. <\/p>"
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"label": "Acquisition",
"value": "1906-1934 (List of Oriental MSS: \"1906 March Bequeathed by Professor Cecil Bendall [handwritten note in pencil] See also Or.810-822\")."
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"label": "Layout",
"value": "Pseudocolumn 1:<\/b> Written height: 3.5 cm, width: ca. 14.5 (inferred) cm. Pseudocolumn 2:<\/b> Written height: 3.5 cm, width: ca. 17 cm. Pseudocolumn 3:<\/b> Written height: 3.5 cm, width: ca. 14.5 (inferred) cm. 6 lines, approximately 30 akṣara<\/i>s for the third psudocolumn (the rest is too fragmentary to be usefully assessed).<\/p> Akṣara height: 4 mm. Interlinear space height: 2 mm. Two string holes, in the middle of 2 cm wide blank space (only one string hole is now extant in this fragment), enclosed by Two pairs of double marginal frame lines. Two pairs of double marginal frame lines.<\/p>"
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"label": "Date of Acquisition",
"value": "1906-1934"
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"value": " 1. Original: Pāla numerals, mid-right margin, verso (number 2).<\/p>"
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"value": " Descriptions of the manuscript<\/b><\/p> Manuscripts<\/b><\/p> Edition(s)<\/b><\/p> Secondary literature<\/b><\/p> The Pañcarakṣā<\/i> corpus (\"Five Protections\") consists of the Mahāpratisarā<\/i>, Mahāmāyūrī<\/i>, Mahāsāhasrapramardanī<\/i>, Mahāmantrānusāriṇī<\/i>, and Mahāśītavatī<\/i>. The earliest evidence for texts grouped together as the \"Five Great Dhāraṇīs\" comes from Tibetan catalogues around 800 CE, but this compendium is somewhat different from the surviving Sanskrit collection, which is preserved in manuscripts dating back to the eleventh century. These scriptures include spells, enumerations of benefits and ritual instructions for use. With the course of time all of them became deified and five related goddesses emerged. It is, however, important to note that the texts themselves do not have any references to these goddesses. This manuscript consists of just a fragment of the right side of the second folio from the Mahāsāhasrapramardanī<\/i>, probably to be dated to the 11th century (on paleographical grounds and on the basis of various features of the layout such as the marginal frame lines and the subdivision in sections; see, for comparison, MS Add. 1688<\/a>). <\/p>",
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