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• bibid: 9957581583503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/794415134
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5758158

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Summary

First part of the manuscript is a Hindu praise (stotra) of the river Sarasvatī, typically associated with a heavenly river than an earthly river, its physical location being disputed; and would be used to aid in private or public meditation or prayer. Second part of manuscript similarly praises the terror inducing deity Narasiṃha, who is conceived as half a man and half a lion, and an avatāra of the deity Viṣṇu. Text emphasizes the god's power, strength, and fearfulness. Both parts open with a mantra to the god Rāma rather than to Gaṇeśa, the lord of beginnings, who more typically opens every Sanskrit text.

Notes

• Title from incipit (f. 1r); alternate title Sarasvatīstotra for first part of manuscript; alternate title Narasiṃhajayati for second part of manuscript.
   
• Written in 9-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 2 leaves foliated 1, [2], upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Colophon (part one): iti brahmapurāṇe sarasvatīstotrasaṃpurṇam sūbham astu (f. 1).
   
• Colophon (part two): iti śrīnarasi[ṃ]hajayati saṃpurṇamarāmarāma (f. 2v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double black line.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Narasiṃha (Hindu deity)
• Vishnu (Hindu deity)
• Rāma (Hindu deity)
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit

Genres

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

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