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

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957581523503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/794378476
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5758152

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Summary

Text employed in personal prayer using mantras for protection, a kind of Hindu amulet, offered to the Hindu goddess Sītā (also referred to as Jānakī) where the devotee symbolically evokes protective armor (kavaca) over parts of the body. Text claims to remove sins, disease, and fear. Presented as a dialogue between the mythical figures Dharaṇī and Śeṣa.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 3r); alternate title Sītākavaca from incipit.
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 3 leaves foliated 1-2, [3], upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Sītā (Hindu deity)
• Hindu goddesses
• Hindu mythology
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hindu mantras
• Amulets (Hinduism)
• Dialogues

Genres

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

Licenses

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