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Rāmarakṣāmantra, circa 1700-1850.
रामरक्षामन्त्र
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Viśvāmitra, attributed name.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Rāma (Hindu deity).
- Rāma.
- RaÌma (Hindu deity).
- Hindu mantras.
- Devotional literature, Sanskrit.
- Genre:
- prayers (compositions)
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (4 leaves) : paper ; 13 x 23 cm
- Contained In:
- Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 2606
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1700-1850.
- १७००-१८५०.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Short devotional text of praise containing mantras (words and phrases of power) for the celebration and worship of the Hindu deity Rāma; used in public or private meditation and prayer.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon (f. 4v).
- Written in 10 lines per leaf.
- 4 leaves foliated 1-4, middle left and lower right verso.
- Colophon: iti śrīviśvāmitraviraṃcitaṃ rāmarakṣāmaṃtrasaṃpūrṇaṃ // (f. 4v).
- Mistakes covered in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant phrases and verse divisions in red throughout.
- 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 1745 (UP 2606).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2606.
- OCLC:
- 971022518
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