Vātulāgama - Aṣṭabandhanavidhi

Metadata

Bundle No.

RE10719

Type

Manuscrit

Language

Sanskrit

Creator

IFP and San Marga Trust

Date Created

2009-2010

Source

Institut Français de Pondichéry

License

Key

manuscripts_001437

Manuscript No.

RE10719o

Title Alternate Script

वातुलागम - अष्टबन्धनविधि

Language

Script

Type

Manuscript

Material

Condition

Good but edges-broken

Folios in Text

12

Folio Range of Text

118a - 129

Lines per Side

5 - 7

Folios in Bundle

355

Width

3 cm

Length

43.5 cm

Bundle No.

RE10719

Other Texts in Bundle

Previous Place

Anniyur, South Arcot District

Miscellaneous Notes

Similar to no. 13.1. Aṣṭabandhana consists in cementing the space between the pedestal and the image with the powedered ingredients of soft cotton, ghee of buffalo, granules of sand, lac, beeswax, resin, decoction of red-ochre, pebbles and jaggery. This treatment forms part of the vātulāgama, as made out from the colophon on fol. 128a. IFI.T. 991 contains a tretment similar to this on pp.310-313 but it has no agreement with this text, though the expression vātulāṣ.ṭabandhanam occurs at the beginning (p. 310). Similarly this does not agree with IFI.T. 368a. The colophon on p. 313 takes the source from vātulabheda, an upāgama of the vātulāgama, IFI. T. 751, has the colophon, iti vātule, on p.112 but has no agreement with this text

Manuscript Beginning

ataḥ paraṃ pravakṣyāmi aṣṭabandhanamuttamam। sarvapāpaharaṃ puṇyaṃ sarvasiddhikaraṃ śubham॥ rājarāṣṭravivṛdhyarthaṃ sarvalokaśubhapradaṃ। aṣṭabandhanahīne ca grāmanāśaṃ dhanakṣayam॥ anāvṛṣṭijvarotpannaṃ sarveṣāṃ prāṇināmapi।

Manuscript Ending

sarvayajñatapodānatīrthasnāneṣu yat phalaṃ। tat phalaṃ koṭiguṇitam aṣṭabandhanakarmaṇā। bhuktvā tu vipulān bhogān ante padyañca śāmbhavīm॥ muktimāyāti tat satyaṃ nirmokā iva pannagaḥ। dhanadhānyavivṛddhissyāt sarvapāpanivāraṇam॥ ihaiva dhanavān śrīmān so'nte rudrapadaṃ labhet। iti vātulākhye pratiṣṭhātantre kriyāpāde aṣṭabandhanavidhipaṭalaḥ॥ śubhamastu॥

Catalog Entry Status

Complete

No. in Descriptive Catalog

118.15

Key

manuscripts_001437

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Vātulāgama - Aṣṭabandhanavidhi, in Digital Collections, Institut Français de Pondichéry, Manuscripts of the Indology Collection, consulted on September, 11th 2025, https://digitalcollections.ifpindia.org/s/manuscripts/item/378586