Details

Subjects:

Debt.
Hinduism.
Lakshmī (Hindu deity).
Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
Hindu mantras.
Debt -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Attributed to and written in the voice of the sage (ṛṣi) Rāmacandra, but likely written by someone else.

Summary:

Small manuscript for private or public use, recitation, and prayer in honor of the Hindu goddess Lakṣmī containing mantras (words of power) for releasing someone from debt (ṛṇamocanamantra).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 2v).
Written in 10 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.
Colophon: iti śrīrāmacaṃdraviracitaṃ mahālakṣmīstotraṃ saṃpūrṇam astu // (f. 2v).
Watermark of a partial 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 1732 (UP 2452).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2452.

OCLC:

968131318