Grahamātṛkādhāraṇī

A Buddhist Dhāraṇī text contains mystic mantras for the veneration of the nine planets. These mantras belong to the Tantric class. The text describes the rituals of worshiping the planets with diagrams drawn on the floor of a room, chanting the mantras seven times each day, from the seventh day to the 14th day of the waxing moon in Kartika, with the final ritual occurring at midnight on the 15th day. The mantras were revealed to a congregation of gods by Buddha himself while residing in the Alakavati mansion of Indra (Mitra, 1882, pp. 50-51). The first folio contains a colourful illustration of a Buddhist deity. The final folio is heavily damaged and torn, so half of the manuscript’s colophon is missing.