{ "viewingDirection": "left-to-right", "metadata": [ { "label": "Origin Place", "value": "Northern India." }, { "label": "Provenance", "value": "Bought in Nepāl by Prof. C. Bendall in 1898-1899." }, { "label": "Extent", "value": "12 ff." }, { "label": "Funding", "value": "AHRC" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "Probably 18th-19th century." }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "MS Or.730" }, { "label": "Donor(s)", "value": "Bendall, Cecil" }, { "label": "Additions", "value": "
Some notes have been written by an anonymous scholar on a leaf of paper bearing the seal of the British Museum. The explicit of each chapter is transcribed, and it notes the apparent lacuna on folio 7r<\/a> that corresponds to the missing section from chapter 3. <\/div>
\"Prasada-Mandana\" written in pencil in cursive handwriting on folio 1r<\/a>. <\/div>
The classmark (\"Or.730\") written in black ink in the top left corner of folio 1v<\/a>. <\/div><\/div>

Marginalia<\/b><\/p>

Some marginal corrections and additions.<\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Subject(s)", "value": "Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Śāstra; Vāstu" }, { "label": "Associated Name(s)", "value": "Rāṇā Kumbha" }, { "label": "Format", "value": "Pothī" }, { "label": "Data Source(s)", "value": "Direct inspection." }, { "label": "Language(s)", "value": "Sanskrit." }, { "label": "Author(s)", "value": "Sūtradhāra Maṇḍana; Sūtradhāra Maṇḍana" }, { "label": "Binding", "value": "

Cardboard cover with classmark. \"Prāsādamaṇḍana\" is written in light pencil near the top.<\/p>

On the folded paper sleeve<\/a> made from a page of printed English text, the title (Prasāda-mandana<\/i>) is written in ink, in English handwriting.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Condition", "value": "Incomplete (?), minor damage on some folios, with loss of text." }, { "label": "Script", "value": "

First hand: Devanāgarī in black ink. Folios 1v<\/a> to 5v<\/a>.<\/div>
Second hand: Devanāgarī in black ink, smaller characters and more lines per page. Folio 6r<\/a> to the end<\/a>.<\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Excerpts", "value": "
Rubric:<\/b> [1v1]<\/a> || ℔ || <\/div>
Incipit:<\/b> [1v1]<\/a> śrī viśvakarmaṇe nama〚<\/i>-1-<\/i>〛<\/i>s tasmai | nirvighnasiddhihetave | ādiṃgaurīsamudbhūtatejasaḥ śaṃbhavā[1v2]ya vai || 1 mahāmāyeti yā gītā | cinmayī munisattamaiḥ | karotu vāgvilāsaṃ me | jihvāyāṃ sā [1v3] sarasvatī || 2 sŕīsṛṣṭeḥ sūtradhārasya | prasādā viśvakarmaṇaḥ | prāsādamaṃḍanaṃ brūte | sūtradhāreṣu [1v4] maṃḍanaḥ || 3 <\/div>
Final Rubric, section:<\/b> [12r11]<\/a> iti prāsādamaṃḍānavāstuśāstre kesaryādi prāsādajātipaṃca[12r12]kṣetre navamerulakṣaṇādhikāro nāma ṣaṣṭo dhyāya || <\/div>
Explicit:<\/b> [12r12]<\/a> ratnagarbhākaṇaṃ caṃdraṃ | sūryatārāvitānakam vicitramaṇḍapaṃ yena kṛtaṃ tasmai namaḥ sa[12r13]dā | 1 | karṇagūḍho trilokya[<\/i>sya<\/i>]<\/i> ekatridvārasaṃyutāḥ | prāsādāgre prakattavyāḥ | sarvadeveṣu maṇḍapā | 2 | gūḍhe strikastādhā<\/i>(!)<\/i>nṛ[12r14]tyakrameṇa maṇḍapātrayaḥ | jinasyārgrai<\/i>(!)<\/i> prakarttavyā sarvadeveṣu maṃḍapāḥ | 3 | samaṃ pādaṃ ca prāsādaṃ | sārdhapādona kadvayaṃ | [<\/i>-1-<\/i>]<\/i><\/div>" }, { "label": "Physical Location", "value": "Cambridge University Library" }, { "label": "Abstract", "value": "

The Prāsādamaṇḍana<\/i> is an architectural treatise by Sūtradhāra Maṇḍana, a sūtradhāra<\/i>, or architect/engineer, who is said to have been employed by Rāṇā Kumbha, a 15th century ruler of Mewar. The text comprises eight chapters on the siting and construction of Nāgara<\/i> style temples. This incomplete manuscript, possiblt written in a jaina scriptorium, contains the first six chapters and the beginning of the seventh. Moreover, the first half of chapter 2 is missing, and the missing section corresponds to a hand change between folios 5 and 6. A large section of chapter 3 is also missing. <\/p><\/p>" }, { "label": "Title", "value": "Prāsādamaṇḍana" }, { "label": "Author(s) of the Record", "value": "Charle Li., CUDL PID Workflow" }, { "label": "Material", "value": "Paper.

Folio height: ca. 10.5 cm, width: ca. 23.5 cm. <\/p>" }, { "label": "Layout", "value": "Written area height: 8 cm, width: 17.5-20 cm.

9 to 13 lines per page, approximately 30 to 40 akṣara<\/i>s per line.<\/p> Akṣara height: 4 mm. Interlinear space height: 4 mm.

Double marginal frame lines in black ink. Top ruling only. Corrections in yellow paste.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Date of Acquisition", "value": "March 1906 (handwritten note in pencil in the List of Oriental MSS.: \"1906 March Bequeathed by Professor Cecil Bendall See also Or.810-822\")." }, { "label": "Foliation", "value": "

1. Original: Devanāgarī numerals, bottom right margin, verso. On the last extant folio, the foliation is on the recto side, since the verso side is blank. This suggests that the person who inscribed the foliation considered the manuscript to be complete, although the text itself is incomplete and breaks off in the middle of a śloka<\/i>.<\/p>

2. Additional: Devanāgarī numerals, bottom right margin, top right margin, top left margin, or mid-left margin, on verso or recto sides. This additional foliation seems to have been added later, since it avoids the damage to the right margin of some folios.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Bibliography", "value": "

Descriptions of the manuscript<\/b><\/p>

ULIB 7/3/55 = Bradshaw, Henry, Notes on the collections of Oriental, Thibetan and 'Additional' manuscripts [unpublished manuscript]<\/i> (Cambridge: 1870-80).<\/div>
ULIB 7/1/4 = Griffith, Ralph T. H. and Daniel Wright, Assorted lists of manuscripts and books, chiefly Oriental, acquired by the Library, with related papers [unpublished manuscript]<\/i> (Cambridge: 1873).<\/div>
List of Oriental MSS. Class Catalogue of Oriental MSS. [unpublished manuscript]<\/i> (Cambridge: 1900\u2013).<\/div><\/div>

Manuscripts<\/b><\/p>

NGMCP: B 352-18<\/a>. <\/div>
CC: 2 listed manuscripts. Vol. 1, p. 364 and vol. 3, p. 78. <\/div><\/div>

Edition(s)<\/b><\/p>

Kulkarni, Raghunath Purushottam (ed.), Prāsāda Maṇḍana of Sūtradhāra Maṇḍana: Sanskrit text and English translation, with notes and glossary<\/i> (New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 2006).<\/div>
Jain, Bhagavān Dās (ed.), Sūtradhāra Maṇḍana viracita Prāsādamaṇḍana (vāstuśilpaśāstra-gujarātī bhāṣāntara sahita)<\/i> (Sīṭī, 1961).<\/div>
Prāsādamaṇḍanam. Śrīsūtradhāramaṇḍanaviracitam<\/i> (Śrīngare: Durgāpresa, 1947).<\/div><\/div>

Secondary Literature<\/b><\/p>

Chakrabarti, Vibhuti, Indian Architectural Theory: Contemporary Uses of Vastu Vidya<\/i> (Richmond, Surrey, UK: Curzon, 1998).<\/div>
Dave, N. R., A Study of the Hindu Science of Architecture and its Practice with Special Reference to Rājavallabha<\/i> (Mumbai: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 2011).<\/div>
Kumar, Prasanna, An encyclopaedia of Hindu architecture<\/i> (London: Oxford University Press, 1946).<\/div>
Pingree, David, Jyotiḥśāstra: Astral and Mathematical Literature<\/i> (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrasowitz, 1981).<\/div>
Shukla, D. N., Vāstu-Śāstra Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture, with especial reference to Bhoja's Samarāṅgaṇa-Sūtradhāra<\/i> (Lucknow: Vāstu-Vāṅmaya-Prakāśana-Śāla, 1958).<\/div>
Shukla, D. N., Vāstu-Śāstra Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting<\/i> (Lucknow: Vāstu-Vāṅmaya-Prakāśana-Śāla, 1958).<\/div>
Vasudev, Gayatri Devi (ed.), Vāstu, Astrology and Architecture (Papers presented at the First All India Symposium on Vāstu, Bangalore, held on June 3-4, 1995)<\/i> (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1998).<\/div><\/div>
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