Details

Subjects:

Monsters.
India.
Vishnu (Hindu deity).
Narasiṃha (Hindu deity).
Hindu goddesses.
Amulets (Hinduism).
Yantras.
Monsters -- Symbolic aspects.
Monsters -- India.

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 deity Narasiṃha, the half-man, half-lion avātara of Viṣṇu. The devotee symbolically evokes protective armor (kavaca) over parts of the body. Text opens with a series of mantras to the deities Narasiṃha (also called Nṛsiṃha) and his consort, the goddess Lakṣmī; offers protection from demons, giving a list of various types of demons that it binds through the recitation of the mantras and drawing yantras (mystic diagrams). Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes:

Title from title abbreviations in margins.
Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; some additions in margins.
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 1082 (UP 2660).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2660

OCLC:

794379091