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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9954528163503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/781303126
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5452816

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Summary

Devotional text to the Hindu deity Viṣṇu and especially his manifestation as Rāma.

Notes

• Title from incipit (f. 1v); alternate title Nārāyaṇakavaca supplied by Poleman, but there appears to be no evidence of a connection to the figure of Nārāyaṇa, though text may have functioned as a kind of amulet or protective prayer (kavaca) as there is some reference to various weapons and their knowledge, and battle.
   
• Written in 9 lines per leaf.
   
• 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

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Subjects topical

• Vishnu (Hindu deity)
• Rāma (Hindu deity)
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit
• Amulets (Hinduism)

Genres

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

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