Veṅkaṭeśvarakavaca, circa 1700-1850.
वेङ्कटेश्वरकवच

Format:

Manuscript

Contributor:

Sevāśankara, Nārāyanabhaṭṭa, scribe.

Standardized Title:

Puranas. Varāhapurāṇa. Kṣētrakhaṇḍa. Selections.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Devotional literature, Sanskrit.

Sri Venkatesvara (Hindu deity).

Vishnu (Hindu deity).

Vishnu.

Pilgrims and pilgrimages--India.

Pilgrims and pilgrimages.

India.

Amulets (Hinduism).

Hindu mantras.

Tirupati (India).

Genre:

manuals (instructional materials)

poems

prayers (compositions)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (16 leaves) : paper ; 10 x 22 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2516

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 Veṅkaṭeśvara (referred to as Vyeṅkaṭeśa in the manuscript), a South Indian manifestation of Viṣṇu associated with the pilgrimage center on Tirupati hill in Andhra Pradesh. The devotee symbolically evokes protective armor (kavaca) over parts of the body, employing the many mantras throughout the manuscript. Manuscript also offers the power to remove sins. Manuscript was likely previously part of a larger collection of texts.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 29v).

Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.

16 leaves foliated 14-29, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti śrīvārahapurāṇe kṣetrakhaṃḍe sūta aunakasaṃvāde śrīvyeṃkaṭeśakavacaṃ saṃpūrṇam astu // śrīvyaṃ kaṭe ārpaṇam astu // nārāyanabhaṭasevāśaṃkara (f. 29v).

Scribe is Nārāyanabhaṭṭa Sevāśankara (f. 29v).

Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line (f. 17).

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 1440 (UP 2516).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2516

OCLC:

802284567