A 1115-8 Bālagrahastava

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 1115/8
Title: Bālagrahastava
Dimensions: 16.8 x 6.4 cm x 8 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Stotra
Date: VS 1878
Acc No.: NAK 6/1819
Remarks:

Reel No. A 1115-8 Inventory No. 90992

Title Bālagrahastava

Subject Stotra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material Nepali paper

State complete

Size 16.8 x 6.4 cm

Folios 8

Lines per Folio 5

Foliation figures on the verso, in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation bā. sto. or bā. la. and in the lower right-hand margin under the word rāmaḥ

Scribe Kamalākānta Śarmā

Date of Copying ŚS 1743, VS 1878

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 6/1819

Manuscript Features

Excerpts

Beginning

śrīgaṇeṇaśāya namaḥ ||     ||

atha bālagrahastotram ||     ||

praṇamya śirasā śāntaṃ gaṇeśānantam a(!)śvaram ||

bālagrahastavaṃ vakṣye samastābhyudaya⟨ḥ⟩pradam || 1 ||

tapasā yaśasā vāptaḥ vapuṣā vikrameṇa ca ||

nirddiṣṭo yaḥ sadā skandaḥ sa no devaḥ prasīdatu⟨ḥ⟩ || 2 ||

yo nandanaḥ pasupate[ḥ] mātṝṇāṃ pāvakasya ca ||

gaṃgomākṛtikānāṃ ca sa no devaḥ prasidatu⟨ḥ⟩ || 3 || (fol. 1v1–5)

End

/// -da padasaṃbhūtai[r] bhairavaiḥ parivāritāḥ ||

rakṣaṃtu bālakaṃ prītā śāṃtiṃ nayatu cetasā || 56 ||

divyaṃ stotram idaṃ puṇyaṃ bālarakṣādhikārakaṃ ||

japet saṃtānarakṣārthaṃ bāla†droṇapaśāṃtidaṃ† || 57 ||     || (fol. 7v5–8r2)

Colophon

iti śrībālagrahastavaṃ<ref name="ftn1">^{Emd. : Mesculine ending is commom.}</ref> samāptam ||

śubham astu ||     ||

svasti śrīśāke 1743 saṃvat 1878 jyeṣṭhakṛṣṇa9tithau śukravāsare likhitaṃ idaṃ pustakaṃ kamalākāntaśarmaṇaḥ<ref name="ftn2">^{It must be instrumental case-ending.}</ref> śubham ||     ||     || (fol. 8r2–4)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 1115/8

Date of Filming 13-07-1986

Exposures 11

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by BK

Date 17-09-2008

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