Śivavarmakathana, circa 1700-1850; शिववर्मकथन,१७००-१८५०

Date:

1700

Description:

Small manuscript for private consultation and recitation containing mantras to be used in a ritual intended to protect devotees of the Hindu deity Śiva from harm (including disease, poverty, and the like). Text also contains a short myth associated with the ritual of placing symbolic armor onto the body of the practitioner functioning as a kind of amulet of protection. Colophon states that the text is from the twelfth chapter of the "Brahmottarapurāṇa" but should likely be "Brahmottarakhaṇḍa" of the Skandapurāṇa (f. 5r).

Language:

Sanskrit

Subject:

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Prayers; Poems; Manuals (instructional materials); Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Manuscripts

Physical Description:

1 item (5 leaves) : paper; 11 x 16 cm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 5r); alternate title Śivakavacastotramantra from incipit (f. 1r).; Written in 15-17 lines per leaf.; 5 leaves foliated 1-5, lower right verso.; Colophon: iti śrīskaṃdapurāṇe brahmottarapurāṇe śivavarmakathanaṃ nāmadvādaśodhyāyaḥ (f. 5r).; Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Physical Location:

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

Collection:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts