Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Skandapurāṇa. Brahmottarakhaṇḍa. Selections.

Other Title:

Śivakavacastotramantra.

Subjects:

Siva (Hindu deity).
Amulets (Hinduism).
Hindu mythology.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Poems.
Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Small manuscript for private consultation and recitation containing mantras to be used in a ritual intended to protect devotees of the Hindu deity Śiva from harm (including disease, poverty, and the like). Text also contains a short myth associated with the ritual of placing symbolic armor onto the body of the practitioner functioning as a kind of amulet of protection. Colophon states that the text is from the twelfth chapter of the "Brahmottarapurāṇa" but should likely be "Brahmottarakhaṇḍa" of the Skandapurāṇa (f. 5r).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 5r); alternate title Śivakavacastotramantra from incipit (f. 1r).
Written in 15-17 lines per leaf.
5 leaves foliated 1-5, lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīskaṃdapurāṇe brahmottarapurāṇe śivavarmakathanaṃ nāmadvādaśodhyāyaḥ (f. 5r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

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 1582 (UP 459).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 459

OCLC:

809261524