Details

Other Title:

Nārāyaṇakavaca.

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Hymns.
Prayers.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Devotional text to the Hindu deity Viṣṇu and especially his manifestation as Rāma.

Notes:

Title from incipit (f. 1v); alternate title Nārāyaṇakavaca supplied by Poleman, but there appears to be no evidence of a connection to the figure of Nārāyaṇa, though text may have functioned as a kind of amulet or protective prayer (kavaca) as there is some reference to various weapons and their knowledge, and battle.
Written in 9 lines per leaf.
2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with double red line.
Non-Latin script record.

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 1077 (UP 433).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 433

OCLC:

781304588