Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Skandapurāṇa. Brahmottarakhaṇḍa. Selections.

Other Title:

Śivakavaca.

Subjects:

Amulets.
India.
Siva (Hindu deity).
Amulets (Hinduism).
Amulets -- India.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
Hindu mantras.

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Prayers.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used primarily for private recitation and ritual directed towards the Hindu deity Śiva and includes numerous invocations of Sanskrit mantras or syllables and phrases of power. Reciting the text is meant to produce a protective barrier over the devotee that will protect him or her from harm, thus functioning as a kind of prayer amulet or talisman. Manuscript lacks beginning.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 16v); alternate title Śivakavaca supplied by cataloger.
Written in 5-6 lines per leaf.
15 leaves foliated 2-16, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīskaṃdapurāṇe brahmottarakhaṃḍe śivavarmakayanaṃ nāmadvādśodhyāyaḥ // 12 // śrī sāṃbasadāśivārpaṇam astu // (f. 16r-16v).
Dated saṃvat 1926 (1869) (f. 16v).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or 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 1581 (UP 392).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 392

OCLC:

838604090