Maheśvarakavaca circa 1750-1899

Date:

1750

Description:

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.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); prayers (compositions); facsimiles (reproductions); Manuscripts, Sanskrit

Physical Description:

1 online resource (3 leaves) : illustrations

Rights:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Rights Note:

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:

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.; In Sanskrit (Bengali)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Rāmamālā Library 1534