Jānakīkavaca, circa 1700-1850; जानकीकवच,१७००-१८५०

Date:

1700

Description:

Text employed in personal prayer using mantras for protection, a kind of Hindu amulet, offered to the Hindu goddess Sītā (also referred to as Jānakī) where the devotee symbolically evokes protective armor (kavaca) over parts of the body. Text claims to remove sins, disease, and fear. Presented as a dialogue between the mythical figures Dharaṇī and Śeṣa.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

Sita (Hindu deity); Hindu goddesses; Hindu mythology; Rites and ceremonies -- India; Rites and ceremonies; Hindu mantras; Amulets (Hinduism); dialogues

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

poems; prayers (compositions); Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 item (3 leaves) : paper; 13 x 21 cm

Geographic Subject:

India

Rights:

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

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 3r); alternate title Sītākavaca from incipit.; Written in 9 lines per leaf.; 3 leaves foliated 1-2, [3], upper left and lower right verso.; Colophon: iti śrībrahmāṃḍapurāṇe [dharaṇī]śeṣasaṃvāde jānakīkavacaṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ samāptaṃ // śrīrāmarāma (f. 3r).; Mistakes blacked out.; Non-Latin script record.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2658

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts