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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957581493503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/794372794
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5758149

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Summary

Text symbolically evokes protection (in the form of armor and weapons), a kind of amulet, for a devotee who recites the verses during worship of the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa, especially during difficult journeys. Middle of manuscript (f. 2), verses 5-14, is missing. Opens with a praise to Rāmakṛṣṇa. Ends with a protective blessing from the Bhagavatapurāṇa (11.5.33).

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 8 lines per leaf.
   
• 2 leaves foliated 1, 3, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1954 (1897) (f. 3v).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; verse markers (daṇḍas) highlighted in red throughout.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Vishnu (Hindu deity)
• Krishna (Hindu deity)
• Amulets (Hinduism)

Genres

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

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