Details

Subjects:

Amulets.
India.
Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Amulets -- India.
Amulets (Hinduism).
Rāma (Hindu deity).

Form/Genre:

Prayers (documents)
Hymns (documents)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used primarily for private recitation and ritual directed towards the Hindu deity Rāma. 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.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 8r).
Written in 7 lines per leaf.
8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
Colophon: iti śrībudhakauśikaviracitaṃ śrīrāmarakṣāstotraṃ sampūrṇam // (f. 8r).
Dated saṃ[vat] 1962 (1905) (f. 8r).
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.

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 1718 (UP 2213).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2213.

OCLC:

960909737