Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa. Selections.

Other Title:

Jānakīkavaca.

Subjects:

Sita (Hindu deity).
Amulets (Hinduism).

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Poems.
Dialogues.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Text employed in private meditation and prayer for offering up protection, a kind of amulet, to the devotee to the Hindu goddess Sītā and claims to remove all fear of sin. Presented as a conversation between the mythological figures Dharaṇī and Śeṣa.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 3v); alternate title Jānakīkavaca supplied by cataloger.
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrībrahmāṃḍapurāṇe dharaṇīśeṣasaṃvāde śrīsitākavacasaṃpurṇaṃ rāmarāmarāma (f. 3v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or 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.

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 1211 (UP 2642).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2642

OCLC:

794379064