Details

Standardized Title:

Tantras. Brahmayāmala. Rāmakavaca.

Subjects:

Rāma (Hindu deity).
Tantrism.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī).

Notes:

Title Rāmakavaca from cover folio (which reads: rāmakacavaprāraṁbhaḥ), back folio (which reads: rāmakacavaṁ samāptaṁ), f. 1v, and top margins of verso folios; title Trailokyamohanarāmakavaca extrapolated from colophon.
Poleman lists manuscript date incorrectly as Saṁvat 1962 rather than 1952.
Scribe's name is Rāma Śarmaṇ.
Written 8-9 lines per leaf on folded sheets of European paper with blue horizontal lines. Watermark partially visible on f. 3.
Good condition. Mistakes covered over with yellow. Marginal corrections.
Begins, f. 1v: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ atha rāmakavacaprāraṁbhaḥ om̐ asya śrīrāmaṣaḍakṣaramaṁtrasya braṁhmā ṛṣiḥ gāyatrī chaṁdaḥ śrīrāmaḥ paramātmā devatā rāṁ bījāya namaḥ śaktiḥ rāmāya kīlakaṁ caturvidhapuruṣārthasidhyarthe śrīrāmaprītyarthe jape viniyogaḥ iti saṁkalpaḥ
Ends, f. 5v: samyak jñātvā tu kavacaṁ maṁtraḥ syāc chighrasiddhidaḥ
Colophon, f. 5v: iti śrīvrahmayāmale umāmaheśvarasaṁvāde [f. 6r] śrīrāmasya trailokyamohanaṁ nāma kavacaṁ samāptaṁ saṁvat 1952 piṁgala nāma saṁvatsare bhādrapada śu aṣṭamyāṁ likhitaṁ sahasrabuddhe ity upāvhayena rāmaśarmaṇā likhitaṁ svārthaṁ parārthaṁ ca śubhaṁ bhavatu śrīsītārāmaprasaṁno stu viśveśvarārpaṇam astu

Cited in:

Listed in H.I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 4496 (UP 1981).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1981

OCLC:

402597377