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• bibid: 9957581563503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/794419421
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5758156

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Summary

Two separate ritual texts contained in one manuscript, both dedicated to evoking protective armor (kavaca) and weapons symbolically through the recitation and deployment of mantras dedicated to specific manifestations of the Hindu deity Viṣṇu. The first text is dedicated to the horse-headed avatāra of Viṣṇu Hāyagrīva and the second text is dedicated to the half man, half lion form of Viṣṇu, Narasiṃha (or Nṛsiṃha). Text presented as a discourse between the deity Brahmā and Sāvītrī (Brahmāsāvītrīsaṃvāda).

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger; title of first part of manuscript Hayagrīvakavaca from first colophon (f. 4r); title of second part of manuscript Nṛsiṃhakavaca from final colophon (f. 7r).
   
• Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
   
• 7 leaves foliated 1-7, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1825 (f. 7r).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Vishnu (Hindu deity)
• Narasiṃha (Hindu deity)
• Hayagrīva (Hindu deity)
• Brahman
• Avatars (Religion)
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hindu mantras
• Weapons, Ancient--India

Genres

• Poems
• Prayers
• Dialogues
• Hymns
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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