Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957581513503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/794379063
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5758151

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Summary

Text employed in private meditation and prayer for offering up protection, a kind of amulet, to the devotee to the Hindu goddess Sītā and claims to remove all fear of sin. Presented as a conversation between the mythological figures Dharaṇī and Śeṣa.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 3v); alternate title Jānakīkavaca supplied by cataloger.
   
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
   
• 3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• 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.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Sītā (Hindu deity)
• Amulets (Hinduism)

Genres

• Prayers
• Poems
• Dialogues
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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