Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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 mantras of the text is meant to produce a barrier that will protect the devotee from harm, thus functioning as a prayer amulet or talisman.

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 8 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins in black and red; verse divisions 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 1886 (UP 2482).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2482.

OCLC:

968132668