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Nṛsiṃhakavaca, circa 1700-1850; नृसिंहकवच,१७००-१८५०

Date:
1700
Description:
Text employed in personal prayer using mantras for protection, a kind of 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. Text opens with a series of mantras to the deities Narasiṃha (also called Nṛsiṃha) and his consort, the goddess Lakṣmī; offers protection from demons, giving a list of various types of demons that it binds through the recitation of the mantras and drawing yantras (mystic diagrams). Manuscript is incomplete.
Language:
Sanskrit
Subject:
Monsters; Vishnu (Hindu deity); Narasiṃha (Hindu deity); Hindu goddesses; Amulets (Hinduism); Yantras; Monsters -- Symbolic aspects; Monsters -- India
Resource Type:
Text
Form/Genre:
Poems; Prayers; Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts
Physical Description:
1 item (2 leaves) : paper; 12 x 22 cm
Geographic Subject:
India
Rights:
https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Notes:
Title from title abbreviations in margins.; Written in 7-8 lines per leaf.; 2 leaves foliated 1-2, upper left and lower right verso.; Mistakes blacked out; some additions in margins.; 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