Friday, January 6, 2006

Devīmāhātmya MS illuminations



www.himalayanart.org item no. 89027 (entitled simply: Manuscript Pages - Illuminated Pages) shows two folios extracted from a Devīmāhātmya MS with vignettes showing 14 prominent episodes (seven on each). The episodes illustrated are labelled in order:



Folio A
1) madhukaiṭabhavadhaḥ, 2) mahiṣāsurasainyavadhaḥ, 3) mahiṣāsuravadhaḥ, 4) śakrādistutiḥ, 5) dūtavākya<ṃ>, 6) dhūmralocanavadhaḥ, 7) caṇḍamuṇḍavadhaḥ.


Folio B 8) raktabījavadhaḥ, 9) niśumbhavadhaḥ, 10) śumbhavadhaḥ, 11) nārāyaṇīstutiḥ, 12) phalaśrutiḥ, 13) surathavarapradāna<ṃ>, 14) bhagavatī devī.



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