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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9973865953503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/968132668
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7386595

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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 barrier that will protect the devotee from harm, thus functioning as a prayer amulet or talisman.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 8 lines per leaf.
   
• 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins in black and red; verse divisions in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   

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Subjects topical

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

Genres

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

Licenses

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