A 482-7 Durgāsaptaśatī and Indrākṣīstava
Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: A 482/7
Title: Devīmāhātmya
Dimensions: 23.5 x 7.2 cm x 50 folios
Material: paper?
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Stotra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/1687
Remarks:
Reel No. A 482/07
Inventory No. 18071
Title Durgāsaptaśatī and Indrākṣīstava
Remarks the text is ascribed to the Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa
Author
Subject Stotra
Language Sanskrit
Manuscript Details
Script Newari
Material paper
State incomplete
Size 23.5 x 7.2 cm
Binding Hole(s)
Folios 50
Lines per Folio 7
Foliation figures in the middle of the right-hand margin of the verso
Scribe Viśvarāma
Date of Copying NS 718
Place of Copying
King
Donor
Owner/Deliverer
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 1/1687
Manuscript Features
The MS contains the text Indrākṣīstava at the last in fols. 54v–55r.
Excerpts
Beginning
❖ oṃ namaś caṇḍikāyai || mārkkṇḍeya uvāca ||
sāvarṇṇis sūryyatanayo yo manuḥ kathyateṣṭamaḥ |
niśāmayaṃ tadutpattir vistarād gadato mama || 1 ||
mahāmāyānubhāvena yathā manvantarādhipaḥ
sa babhūva mahābhāgas sāvarṇṇis tanayo navaḥ || 2 ||
svārociṣe ʼntare pūrvvaṃ caitravaṃśasamudbhavaḥ |
suratho nāma rājābhūt samaste kṣitimaṇḍale || 3 ||
tasya pālayataḥ samyak prajā putrān ivaurasān |
babhūva śatravo bhūpā kolāvidhvaṃsinas tathā || 4 || (fol. 5r1–5)
«Beginning of the Indrākṣīstava»
oṃ namaś caṇḍikāyai ||
indra uvāca ||
indrākṣī nāma sā devī daivataiḥ samudāhṛtā |
gaurī śākaṃbharī devī durggānāmnīti viśrutā | (fol. 54v1–2)
End
iti datvā tayor devī yathābhilaṣitaṃ varaṃ |
babhūvānta[r]hitā sadyo bhaktyā tābhyām abhiṣṭutā || 17 ||
evaṃ devyā valaṃ labdhvā surathaḥ kṣatriyarṣabhaḥ |
sūryāj janma samāsādya sāvarṇṇir bhavitā manuḥ || 18 || || (fol. 54r3–5)
Colophon
iti mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇe sāvarṇṇike manvantare devīmāhātmye trayodaśodhyāyaḥ sampūrṇṇam iti || ❁ || ❖ || || || ❁ || ❖ || ||(fol. 54r6–7)
«Colophon of the Indrākṣīstava»
iti indrākṣīstavaḥ samāptaḥ || ❁ || ❖ ||
bhavānyai nama[ḥ]|| ❖ || gurave nama[ḥ]|| ○ ||
samvat 718 phālguṇ va di 2 likhiti ca laṃṅāche viśvarāma || || ❁ || śubham astu || || (fol. 55r1–2)
Microfilm Details
Reel No. A 482/07
Date of Filming 19-02-1973
Exposures 57
Used Copy Kathmandu
Type of Film positive
Remarks
Catalogued by RT
Date 03-04-2012
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