Apamṛtyuharastotra, circa 1700-1850; अपमृत्युहरस्तोत्र,१७००-१८५०

Date:

1700

Description:

Small manuscript employed in private or public recitation and prayer to ward off sudden or accidental death or illness; it functions as kind of an amulet. Possibly taken from the Mārkaṇḍeya purāṇa.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Devotional literature, Sanskrit; Amulets (Hinduism); Diseases -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism; Death -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Poems; Prayers; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts

Physical Description:

1 item (1 leaf) : paper; 12 x 25 cm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 1v).; Written in 10 lines per leaf.; 1 leaf.; Colophon: iti mārkaṃḍeyaviracitam apamṛtyuharastotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ // cha // śrī // (f. 1v).; 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. Formerly housed with 2273.; Non-Latin script record.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Physical Location:

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

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts