Details

Subjects:

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Amulets (Hinduism).
Diseases -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Death -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Prayers.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Small manuscript employed in private or public recitation and prayer to ward off sudden or accidental death or illness; it functions as kind of an amulet. Possibly taken from the Mārkaṇḍeya purāṇa.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 1v).
Written in 10 lines per leaf.
1 leaf.
Colophon: iti mārkaṃḍeyaviracitam apamṛtyuharastotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // cha // śrī // (f. 1v).
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. Formerly housed with 2273.
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 1407 (UP 2273).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 3039

OCLC:

800665897