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Title

Other related names

• Sevāśankara, Nārāyanabhaṭṭa, scribe

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958038313503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/802284566
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5803831

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Summary

Text employed in personal prayer using mantras for protection, a kind of Hindu amulet, offered to the Hindu deity Veṅkaṭeśvara (referred to as Vyeṅkaṭeśa in the manuscript), a South Indian manifestation of Viṣṇu associated with the pilgrimage center on Tirupati hill in Andhra Pradesh. The devotee symbolically evokes protective armor (kavaca) over parts of the body, employing the many mantras throughout the manuscript. Manuscript also offers the power to remove sins. Manuscript was likely previously part of a larger collection of texts.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 29v).
   
• Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
   
• 16 leaves foliated 14-29, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Scribe is Nārāyanabhaṭṭa Sevāśankara (f. 29v).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line (f. 17).
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Sri Venkatesvara (Hindu deity)
• Vishnu (Hindu deity)
• Pilgrims and pilgrimages--India
• Amulets (Hinduism)
• Hindu mantras

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Poems
• Prayers
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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