Mṛtavatsākavaca circa 1750-1899.

Format:

Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Stillbirth--Bangladesh--Religious aspects.

Stillbirth.

Rites and ceremonies--Bangladesh.

Rites and ceremonies.

Amulets (Hinduism).

Poisonous snakes--Venom--Bangladesh--Religious aspects.

Poisonous snakes.

Fever--Bangladesh--Religious aspects.

Fever.

Poisonous snakes--Venom.

Bangladesh.

Genre:

manuals (instructional materials)

prayers (compositions)

facsimiles (reproductions)

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (3 leaves) : illustrations

Contained In:

Rāmamālā Library 7745

Other Title:

Kavacasaṃgraha.

Place of Publication:

circa 1750-1899.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Bengali)

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Summary:

Manuscript is a collection of different rites and spells (kavaca) that function as a kind of protective amulet or invasive curses and the like, usually intended to result in specific ends. Examples include: protection of stillbirth (mṛtavatsā), protection from snake venom, bewilder everyone, remove fever, gain control over a woman, self-protection.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Comilla, Bangladesh Rāmamālā Library, Mahesh Charitable Trust

Written in 6 lines per folio.

3 leaves foliated 1-3, middle right verso; there is one photo of the cotton wrapping with notes.

Title from manuscript notes; alternate title Kavacasaṃgraha supplied by cataloger.

Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; paper treated with yellow turmeric powder to protect from insects.

Dimensions of original manuscript: 9 x 38 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.

Notes and numbers written in a modern Bengali hand: Kra: 3330; Tantra: 417.

OCLC:

925865796