A 998-10(1) Nirvāṇadīkṣāvidhāna

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 998/10
Title: Nirvāṇadīkṣāvidhāna
Dimensions: 22.5 x 4 cm x 38 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit; Newari
Subjects: Karmakāṇḍa (vaidika, āgamika, tāntrika etc.)
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 5/852
Remarks:

Reel No. A 998-10

Inventory No. 36249

Title Nirvāṇadīkṣāvidhāna

Subject Karmakāṇḍa

Language Sanskrit, Newari

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material palm-leaf

State complete

Size 22.5 x 4.0 cm

Binding Hole 1, left of the centre

Folios 38

Lines per Folio 5

Foliation figures in the right margin of the verso

Date of Copying

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 5-852

Manuscript Features

This manuscript is a combination of several manuscripts, that probably were originally independant of each other, as they are written by different hands and have their own foliation each. The language of all the text does not conform with the standard grammar, therefore not all the irregularities have been marked.

The first is the Nirvāṇadīkṣāvidhāna with 4 folios, which is complete.

The second manuscript contains texts called Nāmamantra and Caṇḍapūjāvidhāna. There the writing is rubbed off on pages 2v, 3r, 7v and 9r. On the other pages it is legible. Fols. 5, 6 and 8 are missing. Seven folios are extant.

The third consists of three folios and contains a text called Kāmākṣā.

The fourth is complete with 5 folios. It contains several short colophons, the first of which gives the name Caturpīṭha.

Then follow three folios with the Ṣaṭcakrabheda.

The next five folios probably form a part of a manuscript of which the end is lost. The verso side of the fifth folio is illegible. The NGMPP gave the probably generic name Mantravidyā to this text.

At the end there are a couple of prakīrṇapattrāṇi.

Excerpts

Beginning

oṃ namaḥ śrīgurupādukebhyo namaḥ || pūrvvasevā pīṭhisevā gaṇapatipūjā || maṇḍalapūjanasvānavoye digasa(?) hṛdayādi nadiga(?) astraṇa juro || (fol. 1v1-2)

iti adhivāsanavidhiḥ || || tato dīkṣāvidhāna | prabhāte snānadevārccanakramācana | ākhatajaparaye(?) aghoraṇa | aghorāṣṭanadhūnijaparaye (?) | śilāpūjanaśaṃkhapūjanayā ye vaktrana aṅgananyāsanadvādaśāṃgana | pataṃgananavātmāna | sakāra hakārana | iti adhivāsanavidhi samāptaḥ || || (fol. 1v4-2r2)

«Sub-Colophons»

End

pūrvacchavali | āgneya daṇḍā | dakṣiṇa jogavāta | naiṛtya jhālilaḍha | pacchima siṃhanāda | vāyavya kāṭhapāra | uttara japamali | īśāna tu parī | arddhapatre | ūrddha kacchoṭhī | madhya kuṇḍala || thvate daśamudrānamaṇḍala oyakaṃte || || (fol. 4v3-5)

Colophon

iti nirvvāṇadīkṣāvidhāna samāptaḥ | (fol. 4v5)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 998/10a

Date of Filming 25-04-1985

Exposures

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive (scanned)

Catalogued by AM

Date 29-12-2010