Details

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Vāmanapurāṇa. Selections.

Subjects:

Hindu mantras.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Hindu mythology.
Vāmana (Hindu deity).
Vishnu (Hindu deity).
Amulets (Hinduism).

Form/Genre:

Poems.
Prayers.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for private or public recitation and performance of rites of protection where the initiate lays symbolic armor on their limbs by means of mantra recitation. Work functions as a kind of protective amulet or talisman and is part of a larger medieval work dedicated to the dwarf form of the Hindu deity Viṣṇu.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 8r).
Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.
8 leaves foliated 1-7, [8], upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrīvārāhapurāṇe kṣetrakhaṃḍe sūtaśaunakasaṃvādeśrīvyaṃ kaṭeśakavacaṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ śrīlakṣmīvyaṃ kaṭeśārpaṇam astu // (f. 8r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; a correction found in margins.

Penn Provenance:

Manuscript was purchased and housed together with Item 442.

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 1439 (UP 443).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 443

OCLC:

841602507