Rāmarakṣāstotra, 1905.
रामरक्षास्तोत्र

Format:

• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• Budhakauśika.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Amulets.
• India.
• Hindu hymns, Sanskrit.
• Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
• Amulets--India.
• Amulets (Hinduism).
• Rāma (Hindu deity).

Genre:

• prayers (compositions)
• hymns
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
• Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (8 leaves) : paper ; 12 x 18 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2213

Place of Publication:

• 1905.
• १९०५.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used primarily for private recitation and ritual directed towards the Hindu deity Rāma. Reciting the text is meant to produce a protective barrier over the devotee that will protect him or her from harm, thus functioning as a kind of prayer amulet or talisman.

Notes:

• Title from colophon (f. 8r).
• Written in 7 lines per leaf.
• 8 leaves foliated 1-8, upper left and lower right verso.
• Colophon: iti śrībudhakauśikaviracitaṃ śrīrāmarakṣāstotraṃ sampūrṇam // (f. 8r).
• Dated saṃ[vat] 1962 (1905) (f. 8r).
• 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.

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 1718 (UP 2213).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2213.

OCLC:

960909737