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.
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
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