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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9972316773503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/961831979
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7231677

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Summary

Manuscript is used primarily for private recitation and ritual directed towards the Hindu deity Rāma. Reciting the mantras of the text is meant to produce a protective barrier over the devotee that will protect him or her from harm, thus functioning as a prayer amulet or talisman.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 9v).
   
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
   
• 10 leaves foliated 1-10, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant phrases highlighted in red; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Hindu mantras
• Amulets (Hinduism)
• Rāma (Hindu deity)

Genres

• Prayers (documents)
• Hymns (documents)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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