Gaṇeśahṛdayakavaca, circa 1700-1850. = गणेशहृदयकवच, १७००-१८५०.
- Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
१७००-१८५०. - Format/Description:
- Manuscript
1 item (3 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 17 cm - Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 445
- Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3z37c - Status/Location:
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- Standardized Title:
- Tantras. Rudrayāmalatantra. Selections.
- Subjects:
- Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity).
Amulets (Hinduism).
Siva (Hindu deity).
Parvati (Hindu deity).
Hindu mantras.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India. - Form/Genre:
- Prayers.
Dialogues.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts. - Language:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Manuscript employed as part of a broader ritual of personal and bodily protection of a devotee of the Hindu deity Gaṇeśa. The worshiper places mantras on his or her heart (hṛdaya) which creates a kind of symbolic, protective armor (kavaca) much like an amulet or talisman. Presented as a dialogue between the goddess Pārvatī (Gaurī) and the god Śiva (Śaṅkara).
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 3v).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
3 leaves foliated 1-3, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti rudrayāmale gaurīsaṃkarasaṃvāde gaṇeśahṛdayakavacaṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // sūbhastu // śrīgajānanaḥ // śrī // (f. 3v).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins. - Penn Provenance:
- Sold and previously housed with Item 446.
- 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 4558 (UP 445).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 445
- OCLC:
- 841602520