Hanumatkavacastotra, 1779.
हनुमत्कवचस्तोत्र

Format:

• Manuscript

Standardized Title:

• Puranas. Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa. Selections.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Hanumān (Hindu deity).
• Rites and ceremonies--India.
• Rites and ceremonies.
• India.
• Hindu mantras.
• Hinduism--Prayers and devotions.

Genre:

• prayers (compositions)
• hymns
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
• Manuscripts.
• Prayers.
• Devotional literature.

Physical Description:

1 item (7 leaves) : paper ; 9 x 16 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 464

Other Title:

Hanumanmālāmantra.

Place of Publication:

• 1779.
• १७७९.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Hymn dedicated to the Hindu deity and monkey lord Hanuman taken from the Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa; title refers to the "breastplate" or "armor" (kavaca) of Hanuman, which can be evoked symbolically through the recitation of this set of prayers and mantras.

Notes:

• Title from colophon (f. 7v); alternate title Hanumanmālāmantra from incipit (f. 1v).
• Written in 6 lines per leaf.
• 7 leaves foliated [1-6], 7, lower right verso.
• Colophon: iti śrībrahmāṃḍapurāṇe hanumatkavacastotraṃ samāptaṃ // saṃvat 1[8]36 varṣemāsānāṃmasotame āsojamāse tuneśukle pakṣe tithau dhavudhavāsare // idaṃ pustakaṃ li[kh]itaṃ [??]hiḍonamadhye mayārāmavidyārthīharīdāsavaiṣṇavake [/] śrīrāmakṛṣṇarāmakṛṣṇarāmakṛṣṇarāmaṃ hanumānjīsahāya (f. 7v).
• Dated saṃvat 1836 (1779) (f. 7v); the number 8 was written in later and is not totally clear.
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
• Opening folio (f. 1) is glued to a white paper backing.
• May have been housed at an earlier time with Item 461, Item 462, and Item 463.
• 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 1213 (UP 464).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 464

OCLC:

774532466