Nṛsiṃhakavaca, circa 1700-1850.
नृसिंहकवच

Format:

Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Monsters.

India.

Vishnu (Hindu deity).

Vishnu.

Narasiṃha (Hindu deity).

Narasiṃha.

Hindu goddesses.

Amulets (Hinduism).

Yantras.

Monsters--Symbolic aspects.

Monsters--India.

Genre:

poems

prayers (compositions)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (2 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 22 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2660

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Text employed in personal prayer using mantras for protection, a kind of Hindu amulet, offered to the Hindu deity Narasiṃha, the half-man, half-lion avātara of Viṣṇu. The devotee symbolically evokes protective armor (kavaca) over parts of the body. Text opens with a series of mantras to the deities Narasiṃha (also called Nṛsiṃha) and his consort, the goddess Lakṣmī; offers protection from demons, giving a list of various types of demons that it binds through the recitation of the mantras and drawing yantras (mystic diagrams). Manuscript is incomplete.

Notes:

Title from title abbreviations in margins.

Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.

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

Mistakes blacked out; some additions in margins.

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 1082 (UP 2660).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2660

OCLC:

794379091