Kṛṣṇakvaca, 1897.
कृष्णक्वच

Format:

Manuscript

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Padmapurāṇa. Selections.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Vishnu (Hindu deity).

Krishna (Hindu deity).

Amulets (Hinduism).

Genre:

poems

prayers (compositions)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 19 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2634

Place of Publication:

1897.

१८९७.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Text symbolically evokes protection (in the form of armor and weapons), a kind of amulet, for a devotee who recites the verses during worship of the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa, especially during difficult journeys. Middle of manuscript (f. 2), verses 5-14, is missing. Opens with a praise to Rāmakṛṣṇa. Ends with a protective blessing from the Bhagavatapurāṇa (11.5.33).

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).

Written in 8 lines per leaf.

2 leaves foliated 1, 3, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrīpadmapurāṇe śrīkṛṣṇakavacaṃ saṃpūrṇam // [symbol] // subham astuḥ saṃmat // 1954 [//] dhyeyaṃ sadā paribhavaghnam abhiṣṭadohaṃ // tīrthāspadaṃ śivaviriṃcinutaṃ śaraṇyaṃ // bhṛtyarttiham praṇatapālabhavābdhipotaṃ vaṃde mahāpuruṣate caraṇāravidaṃ // 1 // (f. 3r).

Dated saṃvat 1954 (1897) (f. 3v).

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; verse markers (daṇḍas) highlighted in red throughout.

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 1095 (UP 2634).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2634

OCLC:

794372795