the Sanskrit for Hand held attribute

[Jan E.M. Houben]

Perhaps interesting to note that apart from
handheld attribute aayudha may also refer to
sacrificial utensil (yaj;naayudha).
Jan Houben

--- Hartmut Buescher <buescher at HUM.KU.DK> wrote:
> Dear John,
>
> as your question indicates that you are not yet
> familiar
> with Gudrun B�hnemann's recently published
> standard
> works on iconography, I cannot resist to refer
> you to this
> source of sheer delight for an indological
> iconologist:
> (omitting the diacritics)
>
> Gudrun B�hnemann
> The Iconography of Hindu Tantric Deities
> Volume I:
> The Pantheon of the Mantramahodadhi
> Volume II:
> The Pantheons of the Prapancasara and the
> Saradatilaka
>
> Groningen [Egbert Forsten]
> 2000 & 2001
>
> Given the heavy interchanges/mutual
> dependencies of
> Hindu and Buddhist Tantric iconographic
> features (as
> demonstrated e.g. by Sanderson and B�hnemann
> herself),
> also someone specialized in the Buddhist
> Tantric field will
> surely profit from these volumes. Confirming
> Robert Goldman's
> present reference to the term Ayudha-,
> B�hnemann, en passant,
> speaks of "iconographic attributes (Ayudha)"
> (e.g. II: 150), while
> clarifying the range of this notion as follows:
>
> "The deities in the MM [= Mantramahodadhi] are
> described as
> holding a variety of iconographic attributes,
> called "weapons" (Ayudha).
> Besides actual weapons, Ayudhas include objects
> such as vessels,
> manuscripts, flowers and animals. All of the
> attributes are listed in
> appendix 1, section 5.4 of this book." (I: 49)
>
> Cf. also MVy 6104 [Sasaki] ; CXLI (34) [Csoma
> de K�r�s]
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Hartmut
>
>
>
>
> >  The term usually used is AyudhaH/Ayudham as
> in epithets such as
> >halAyudhaH for BalarAma..
>
>
> >  Dear Colleagues,
> >
> >Does any on the list know of a generic term
> for attributes in
> >Sanskrit or Buddhist hybrid Sanskrit?  The
> various weapons tools and
> >symbols held by Buddhist persona, all have
> names of which we are well
> >aware but after forty-six years the generic
> term, if there is one,
> >still eludes me.
> >
> >Thank you all
> >
> >John
> >
> >
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