Sītākavaca, circa 1700-1850.
सीताकवच

Format:

Manuscript

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa. Selections.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Sita (Hindu deity).

Sita.

Amulets (Hinduism).

Genre:

prayers (compositions)

poems

dialogues

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (3 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 20 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2642

Other Title:

Jānakīkavaca.

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Text employed in private meditation and prayer for offering up protection, a kind of amulet, to the devotee to the Hindu goddess Sītā and claims to remove all fear of sin. Presented as a conversation between the mythological figures Dharaṇī and Śeṣa.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 3v); alternate title Jānakīkavaca supplied by cataloger.

Written in 7 lines per leaf.

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

Colophon: iti śrībrahmāṃḍapurāṇe dharaṇīśeṣasaṃvāde śrīsitākavacasaṃpurṇaṃ rāmarāmarāma (f. 3v).

Mistakes covered over in yellow or 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 1211 (UP 2642).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2642

OCLC:

794379064