[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930) › v7.c92.307 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c92.307 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c92.307 - **Language:** English ### [v7.c92.307](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c92.307) The Buddhist tantras also make much of mandalas. In the Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa mandalas are described with special directions for painting them. The Guhyasamājatantra speaks of a mandala of 16 cubits with a cakra inside. Vide Prof. G. Tucci's 'Indo-Tibetica' vol. IV part I (Rome, 1941) which gives tables containing mandalas and A. Getty's 'The Gods of Northern Buddhism' (1908) Plate XVI for a mandala of nine elements, and 'Contributions to the study of mandala and mudrā' by Erik Haarh pp. 57-91 of vol XXIII. Nos. 1 and 2 (1958) of Acta Orientalia of the Oriental Societies of Denmark, Norway &c. in which at the end there are photographs of about 100 hand poses (mudrās). The Nispannayogāvali (G. O. S.) of Abhayākaragupta, a contemporary of Rāmapāla, king of Bengal (1084-1130 A. D.), describes 26 mandalas in 26 chapters, each mandala having a central deity and other minor Buddhist divinities, sometimes more than one hundred in number.¹⁸⁵⁸ - [Previous: v7.c92.306](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c92.306) - [Next: v7.c92.308](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c92.308) - [Up: v7.c92](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c92) ## Cites (3) - [Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.kriya.tathagata.manjusrimulakalpa) — Sanskrit - [Guhyasamājatantra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.yogottara.guhyasamaja-cycle.tantra.guhyasamaja) — Sanskrit - [Niṣpannayogāvalī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.sadhana.samuccaya.nispannayogavali) — Abhayākaragupta, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c92.307](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c92.307) · Pramāṇa