A 48-14 Vajrāvalīmaṇḍalopāyikā

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 48/14
Title: Vajrāvalīmaṇḍalopāyikā
Dimensions: 29.9 x 5 cm x 1 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Bauddha; Tantra
Date: NS 360
Acc No.: NAK 7/2
Remarks:

Reel No. A 48-14

Inventory No. 105146

Title Vajrāvalī

Remarks also known as Vajrāvalīnāmamaṇḍalopāyikā

Author Abhayākaragupta (11^th–12^th c.)

Subject Bauddhatantra

Language Sanskrit

Text Features text describing maṇḍalas of the deities known as “vajra” (adamantine persona)

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material palm-leaf

State incomplete

Size 29.5 x 5.0 cm

Binding Hole 2

Folios 1

Lines per Folio 6

Foliation

Scribe Jñānarakṣita

Date of Copying NS 360

Place of Copying Lalitpurī, Noglaka (i.e. Nogalasthāna or Hnogal Tol)

King Abhayamalla (1216–55)

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 7/2

Manuscript Features

This MS consists only of a fragment, that is the last folio of a longer text. On the verso, there are two more verses, as well as a colophon. However, these four lines seem no to belong to the Vajrāvalī proper. They read as follows:

++(ny agre) sunīlā sphuradaruṇanibhā pṛṣṭhataḥ khaṇḍarohā

lāmā śyāmāthavā me kanakasamanibhā rūpinī (!) dakṣiṇasthā |

pūjāpātraṃ catuṣkaṃ prati vidiśi gataṃ pañcapīyūṣa+⁅rṇṇa⁆ (!)

pradhva⁅stā⁆śeṣadoṣaḥ sa jayati bhagavān ḍākinīsamvaro vaḥ ||

(vo) māṅgī vibhur indranīlanikarair jotsnā(!)vibhāvottama-

sarvvajñādyumaṇiprabhāsvaramayīprajñāʼbjake(li)prabhuḥ |

sphūrjjat(!)hūṁkṛtibhīmanādavisarair mmā○rārisantrāsakaḥ

sasvat(!)manmathamastakā○kramagati (!) jyogā(!)mbara (!) pātu vaḥ ||

❁ || samvat 492 māghaśuddhi .. yasyāgrama (!)<ref>Here, the colophon ends abruptly. If we take samvat 492 to be Nepāla-samvat, the date would correspond to 1371/2 AD.</ref> ○

The remaining space of the verso has been inscribed by a quite modern Newari hand with some verses.

Excerpts

End

3 ho 3 svāheti paṭhan ghaṇṭām adhyāṣṭa(!)deśeṣu daṇḍañ cālayan (!) vādayed iti | savistaran tu ghaṇṭāvajraprabhedānāṃ lakṣaṇan (!) āmnāyamañjaryyām abhihitam iti vajraghaṇṭāṇādi(!)vidhiḥ || ❁ ||

iti paramamunīnāṃ vādag(!)udanvaty agādhe

śrutam api na parīyuḥ ke pi ke pi plavante ||

sakṛ○pamatimahimnāsmābhir antar nnimaryyo (!)

mṛtam it⟪i⟫am (!) upanī|| ❁ ||taṃ prītaye [[te]] bhajantāṃ ||

sukṛtam udita⁅m u○ccai⁆r jyotir antar jvalad yat

prasṛtam iha mahimnā māka○rasyāsu (!) tābhyāṃ |

vilasatva (!) mama vajrā preyasī śarmmadhāmni

trijagadabhayabhartu (!) maṇḍale viśvamūrtteḥ ||

Colophon

⁅ma⁆○hāpaṇḍitaśrīmadabhayākaraguptaviracitā śrī○vajrāvalīnāmamaṇḍalopayikā samāptā || ❁ ||

śūnya⁅ñ (!) ci⁆(hna)ta (!) cāṅgadhātusahite kṣāte (!) gate vatsare |

cai○trākṣīṇakalāni(!)maṇḍitaśasī(!)nāgā (!) ca saṃkhyā (!) ti○thau |

bhūpāle ʼbhayamalladevanṛpate (!) candrā|| ○ ||ñ (!) ca vāre yute |

ettate (!) khalu śāstralikhitam (!) idaṃ harṣā (!) ca lakṣmīkarāḥ (!) ||

śrīlalitpuryāṃ śrīnoglake śrīindradevasaṃskāritaśrījayamaṇoharavarmmavihārāva-sthitajñānarakṣitena likṣiteti (!) ||

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 48/14

Date of Filming 20-10-1970

Exposures 4

Used Copy Berlin

Type of Film negative

Remarks

Catalogued by OH

Date 10-01-2008

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