Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa. Selections.

Other Title:

Sītākavaca.

Subjects:

Sita (Hindu deity).
Hindu goddesses.
Hindu mythology.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu mantras.
Amulets (Hinduism).
Dialogues.

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Prayers.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Text employed in personal prayer using mantras for protection, a kind of Hindu amulet, offered to the Hindu goddess Sītā (also referred to as Jānakī) where the devotee symbolically evokes protective armor (kavaca) over parts of the body. Text claims to remove sins, disease, and fear. Presented as a dialogue between the mythical figures Dharaṇī and Śeṣa.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 3r); alternate title Sītākavaca from incipit.
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 1-2, [3], upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrībrahmāṃḍapurāṇe [dharaṇī]śeṣasaṃvāde jānakīkavacaṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ samāptaṃ // śrīrāmarāma (f. 3r).
Mistakes blacked out.
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 1192 (UP 2658).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2658

OCLC:

794379087