Vande devam viṣṇum śeṣasthiti hetuṃ, circa 1700-1850.
वन्दे देवं विष्णुं शेषस्थिति हेतुं

Format:

Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Vishnu (Hindu deity).

Vishnu.

Rāma (Hindu deity).

Rāma.

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Amulets (Hinduism).

Genre:

hymns

prayers (compositions)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 19 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 433

Other Title:

Nārāyaṇakavaca.

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

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