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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958213883503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/808632533
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5821388

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Summary

Small manuscript for private consultation and recitation containing mantras to be used in a ritual intended to protect devotees of the Hindu deity Śiva from harm (including disease, poverty, and the like). Text also contains a short myth associated with the ritual of placing symbolic armor onto the body of the practitioner functioning as a kind of amulet of protection. Colophon states that the text is from the twelfth chapter of the "Brahmottarapurāṇa" but should likely be "Brahmottarakhaṇḍa" of the Skandapurāṇa (f. 5r).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 5r); alternate title Śivakavacastotramantra from incipit (f. 1r).
   
• Written in 15-17 lines per leaf.
   
• 5 leaves foliated 1-5, lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Siva (Hindu deity)
• Amulets (Hinduism)
• Hindu mythology
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit

Genres

• Prayers
• Poems
• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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