Details

Subjects:

Tantrism.
Narasiṃha (Hindu deity).
Vishnu (Hindu deity).
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
India.
Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
Amulets (Hinduism).

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Text employed in personal prayer using mantras for protection, as a Hindu amulet, offered to the Hindu deity Narasiṃha, the half-man, half-lion avātara of Viṣṇu. The devotee symbolically evokes protective armor (kavaca) over parts of the body. Manuscript is incomplete. Part of a Tantric work called the Saṃmīlanatantra (f. 3r).

Notes:

Title from internal colophon (f. 3r).
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Internal colophon: iti śrīsaṃmīlanataṃtre mahāsiddhipradeśrīnṛsiṃhasuṃdarīkavacaṃ // (3r).

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 4650 (UP 2787).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2787.

OCLC:

975834774