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Title

Other related names

• Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. 1877-1947, former owner
• Brown, W. Norman 1892-1975, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959103633503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/828633737
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p39w8s

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

circa 1700-1850

Summary

Manuscript is a compendium of cure-amulets meant to be carried about or worn as protective charms. Contains diagrams (yantras) of cosmologies, the human body, deities, and animals along with various mantras to be recited during the performance of healing rites and to ward of danger. Such diagrammatic manuscripts are found throughout South Asia on palm leaves or sheets of copper.

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• 8 leaves.
   
• Text and diagrams engraved in palm leaf and rubbed with black ink.
   
• Palm leaf with hole in center for string, which is missing.
   

Extent

Support

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, given to W. Norman Brown circa 1937.
   
• Formerly owned by W. Norman Brown, given by his estate to the University of Pennsylania Libraries after 1975.
   

Subjects topical

• Yantras
• Yantras
• Mantras
• Mantras
• Healing--Religious aspects
• Healing--Religious aspects
• Healing--India
• Amulets (Hinduism)
• Amulets (Hinduism)
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Rites and ceremonies
• Healing
• India

Genres

• Handbooks and manuals
• diagrams
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century

Keywords

• 18th century
• 19th century
• Indian
• Paper
• India
• Diagrams

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