A 179-3 Mantracandrikā

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 179/3
Title: Mantracandrikā
Dimensions: 31 x 12.5 cm x 250 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Mantra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/57
Remarks:

Reel No. A 179-3 Inventory No. 34985

Title Mantracandrikā

Subject Śaiva Tantra

Language Sanskrit

Reference SSP, p. 109b, no. 4060

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State incomplete, missing folios: 124 and 125

Size 31.0 x 12.5 cm

Folios 248

Lines per Folio 9

Foliation figures on the verso, in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation maṃ. caṃ. or maṃ. caṃ. pū. and in the lowe right-hand margin under the word rāma

Scribe Kṛṣṇa Daivajña

Date of Copying SS 1695 VS 1830

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 1/57

Manuscript Features

After fol. 66, the MS is written in another hand.

Excerpts

Beginning

❖ śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ||     ||

natvā gurūpadāṃbhojaṃ gaṇeśaṃ sāradāṃ śivāṃ |

śīvaṃ sūryyaṃ hṛṣīkeśaṃ tanyate maṃtracaṃdrikāṃ(!) || 1 ||

graṃthaṃ graṃthāṃtarād vākyān nānārthaṃ pratibudhya ca |

saukaryyārthaṃ ca saṃkṣepāt sārasāraṃ pratanyate || 2 ||

vande [ʼ]haṃ sakalāṃ sveṣṭāṃ paramātmasvarūpiṇīṃ |

yasyāḥ kaṭākṣamātreṇa sādhakaḥ kin na sādhayet || 3 || (fol. 1v1–3)

End

śāṃtidaṃ suhṛdaṃ strīṇāṃ, bhūtapretabhayāpahaṃ ||

garbharakṣākaraṃ śuddhaṃ param asyā(!)n na vidyate ||

mustāmothaṃ niśāharidrā vahniś citrakamūlaṃ yaṣṭiḥ madhuyaṣṭiḥ rohiṇī kaṭukī phalatrayaṃ haritakyādiprasthaparimitaṃ ghṛtaṃ samyak pācayet maṃtrasādhitam uktaphaladaṃ || iti paṃcagavyaṃ ||     || (fol. 250r1–3)

Colophon

iti śrīmaṃtracandrikāyāṃ yaṃtrakaraṇādhikāraḥ saptaviṃśas taraṃgaḥ ||     ||     || śūbhaṃ ||     || śrīśakarāje 1695 vikaramābde 1830 caitramāse kṛṣṇapakṣe paṃcamyān tithau viśāṣā(!) nakṣatre vṛhaspativāsare śubhalagne || taddine daivajñakṛṣṇena likhitam idaṃ pustakaṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ ||     ||

śrīśivāya namaḥ ||     || (fol. 250r3–5)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 179/3

Date of Filming 25-10-1971

Exposures 263

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks two exposures of fols. 7v–8r, 35v–36r, 96v–97r, 130v–131r 146v–147r, 156v–157r, 195v–196r, 197v–198r, 200v–201r, 240v–241r, three exposures of fols. 199v–200r and fols. 36v–37r are out of focus

Catalogued by MS

Date 03-06-2008

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