Maha Yant Manual

What is drawn on these pages

Readings of the illustrated pages, in the tradition's own vocabulary. Described by a vision pass; the quoted captions are transcribed from the page itself.

• Folio 125 · diagram — ยันต์รูปกาย (figure/body-form yantra). A tall anthropomorphic yant built from paired, conjoined heart-lobes (ovals) stacked in three tiers — a broad base, a mid-body, and a small head — so the whole reads as a seated torso. Each lobe encloses a syllable in Khom (ขอม) sacred script, set in facing pairs. The figure is crowned by an unalom (อุณาโลม) spiral flame rising from a small finial with flanking syllables, seated on a lotus-style pedestal. Long lines cross diagonally between the tiers, lacing the lobes together. A single small red-ink glyph sits at the base center. Freehand ink on paper; a consecration/phra-yant diagram of the kind drawn to be inscribed on cloth, foil or skin. see the page →
• Folio 149 · diagram — ยันต์กรอบสี่เหลี่ยม (boxed / framed yantra). Two rectangular yant frames drawn with looped "knot" corners (each corner tied off in a small circle). The upper frame holds two words in Khom (ขอม) script, each finished with a wavy sara/tail stroke, with a Thai caption ("กันง"/kan-…) between the two frames. The lower, wider frame contains four identical repeated hook-strokes in a row — a reduplicated syllable series (นะ-type repetition) of the sort used to multiply a katha's force. Page number in Thai numerals top-left. Ink on paper; a boxed katha grid meant to be copied as a unit. see the page →
• Folio 159 · diagram — ยันต์กลม / ยันต์วงกลม (circular wheel yantra). A round mandala-form yant: three concentric rings divided by radial spokes into cells, each cell holding one Khom (ขอม) syllable, so the syllable-string winds around the wheel. At the hub, four quadrants each carry a rosette of three grouped finger-strokes around a small central mark. The form is a yant klom of the kind used for all-round, encircling protection — the syllables reading around the ring rather than in lines. Thai page number top-left. Freehand ink on paper. see the page →