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Title

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9934319763503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122526782
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3431976

Publisher

Language

Summary

Text in poor Sanskrit enumerating in 51 verses the mantric powers of the Sanskrit alphabet.

Notes

• Title from colophon. The manuscript's original acquisition label renders the title in Sanskrit as Vāmanākṣarī, under which title Poleman catalogs the ms.
   
• Written 9-11 lines per leaf.
   
• Good condition. Mistakes covered over with yellow or written over.
   
• Begins (f. 1r): śrīkāre jaya kāryāṇīvidyām aiśvaryaṁ eva ca ārogyaṁ kṣemamāmotī labhate nātra saṁśaya (verse 1). akāre śokasaṁtāpaṁ vyavādaṁ saṁgam eva ca avyāhasakalāścaiva arkalābhaśca eva ca (verse 2).
   
• Ends: jakāre yaśalābhaṁ ca dhaṁna prāmotīmānasāṁ [-]labhate tānna sandeho dhanam aiśvaryam eva ca (verse 51).
   
• Colophon (f. 4v): ītī śrībāvaṁnākṣarī.
   

Extent

Support

Colophon

Subjects topical

• Alphabet--Religious aspects--Hinduism
• Tantrism

Genres

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

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