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Apamṛtyuharastotra, circa 1700-1850.
अपमृत्युहरस्तोत्र
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 390 Item 3039
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
- Amulets (Hinduism).
- Diseases--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
- Death--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
- Genre:
- poems
- prayers (compositions)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (1 leaf) : paper ; 12 x 25 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 3039
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Small manuscript employed in private or public recitation and prayer to ward off sudden or accidental death or illness; it functions as kind of an amulet. Possibly taken from the Mārkaṇḍeya purāṇa.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 1v).
- Written in 10 lines per leaf.
- 1 leaf.
- Colophon: iti mārkaṃḍeyaviracitam apamṛtyuharastotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // cha // śrī // (f. 1v).
- 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. Formerly housed with 2273.
- 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 1407 (UP 2273).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 3039
- OCLC:
- 800665897
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