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• bibid: 9976158663503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/975834774
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/7615866

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Summary

Text employed in personal prayer using mantras for protection, as a 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. Manuscript is incomplete. Part of a Tantric work called the Saṃmīlanatantra (f. 3r).

Notes

• Title from internal colophon (f. 3r).
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Internal colophon: iti śrīsaṃmīlanataṃtre mahāsiddhipradeśrīnṛsiṃhasuṃdarīkavacaṃ // (3r).
   

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Subjects topical

• Tantrism
• Narasiṃha (Hindu deity)
• Vishnu (Hindu deity)
• Rites and ceremonies--India
• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit
• Amulets (Hinduism)

Genres

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

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