Apamṛtyuharastotra, circa 1700-1850.
अपमृत्युहरस्तोत्र

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