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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959473223503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/841601683
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5947322

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Summary

Manuscript is used for private or public recitation and performance of rites of protection where the initiate lays symbolic armor on their limbs by means of mantra recitation. Work functions as a kind of protective amulet or talisman and is part of a larger medieval work dedicated to the dwarf form of the Hindu deity Viṣṇu.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 8r).
   
• Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
   
• 8 leaves foliated 1-7, [8], upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; a correction found in margins.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Provenance

• Manuscript was purchased and housed together with Item 442.
   

Subjects topical

• Hindu mantras
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Hindu mythology
• Vāmana (Hindu deity)
• Vishnu (Hindu deity)
• Amulets (Hinduism)

Genres

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

Licenses

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