Maheśvarakavaca circa 1750-1899.

Format:

• Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
• Amulets (Hinduism).
• Śiva (Hindu deity).
• Siva (Hindu deity).

Genre:

• prayers (compositions)
• facsimiles (reproductions)
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
• Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (3 leaves) : illustrations

Contained In:

Rāmamālā Library 1534

Place of Publication:

circa 1750-1899.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Bengali)

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Summary:

Text praising the Hindu god Śiva (named Maheśvara); the recitation of the prayers is performed during the rites of the protective kavaca, a kind of amulet employing mantras and prayers.

Notes:

• Electronic reproduction. Comilla, Bangladesh Rāmamālā Library, Mahesh Charitable Trust
• Written in 6-7 lines per folio.
• 3 leaves, foliated 1-3, middle right verso; there is one photo of the newspaper wrapping.
• Notes and numbers written on manuscript by modern Bengali scholars: Kra: 2996; Vi: 211; 109 naḥ.
• Title from colophon (f. 3v).
• Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
• Dimensions of original manuscript: 9 x 43 cm.
• Reproduced from the original with permission of the Mahesh Charitable Trust under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license.

OCLC:

914444814