Nṛsiṃhasundarīkavaca, circa 1700-1850; नृसिंहसुन्दरीकवच,१७००-१८५०

Date:

1700

Description:

Text employed in personal prayer using mantras for protection, as a Hindu amulet, offered to the Hindu deity Narasiṃha, the half-man, half-lion avātara of Viṣṇu. The devotee symbolically evokes protective armor (kavaca) over parts of the body. Manuscript is incomplete. Part of a Tantric work called the Saṃmīlanatantra (f. 3r).

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Tantrism; Narasiṃha (Hindu deity); Vishnu (Hindu deity); Rites and ceremonies -- India; Rites and ceremonies; Hindu hymns, Sanskrit; Amulets (Hinduism)

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Prayers (documents); Hymns (documents); Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 item (4 leaves) : paper; 12 x 25 cm

Geographic Subject:

India

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Title from internal colophon (f. 3r).; Written in 9 lines per leaf.; 4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.; Internal colophon: iti śrīsaṃmīlanataṃtre mahāsiddhipradeśrīnṛsiṃhasuṃdarīkavacaṃ // (3r).; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2787

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts