Details

Other Title:

Atharvaṇavedahanumatadurga

Subjects:

Hindu mantras.
Amulets (Hinduism).
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.

Form/Genre:

Prayers.
Watermarks.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Ancillary work, an addendum to the Atharvaveda called the Atharvaṇaveda, containing protective mantras (kavaca) used in prayers, rites and ceremonies and functioning as an amulet.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 9r); alternate title Atharvaṇavedahanumatadurga from colophon (f. 9r).
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
10 leaves foliated 1-8, [9-10], upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti atharvaṇavede hanumatadurgaṃ saṃpūrṇam astu // (f. 9r).
Dated śaka 1827 (1905) (f. 9r).
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with quadruple black line.
Watermarks of a coat of arms.

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 119 (UP 1968).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1968.

OCLC:

952047752