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• bibid: 9957581533503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/794378479
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5758153

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Summary

Text employed in personal prayer using mantras for protection, a kind of Hindu amulet, offered to the Hindu deity Narasiṃha, the half-man, half-lion avātara of Viṣṇu. The devotee symbolically evokes protective armor (kavaca) over parts of the body. Text opens with a series of mantras to the deities Narasiṃha (also called Nṛsiṃha) and his consort, the goddess Lakṣmī; offers protection from demons, giving a list of various types of demons that it binds through the recitation of the mantras and drawing yantras (mystic diagrams). Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes

• Title from title abbreviations in margins.
   
• Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
   
• 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some additions in margins.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

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Subjects topical

• Vishnu (Hindu deity)
• Narasiṃha (Hindu deity)
• Hindu goddesses
• Amulets (Hinduism)
• Yantras
• Monsters--Symbolic aspects
• Monsters--India

Genres

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

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