B 31-14 Vajrāvalī

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 31/14
Title: Vajrāvalī
Dimensions: 30.5 x 6 cm x 83 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Newari; none
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Bauddha; Tantra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 5/84
Remarks: the same MS has been microfilmed on A 1297/10

Reel No. B 31-14 Inventory No. 105140

Title Vajrāvalī

Author Abhayākara Gupta

Subject Bauddha Tantra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material palm-leaf

State complete

Size 30.5 x 6.0 cm

Binding Hole one in the middle left of folio.

Folios 83

Lines per Folio 6

Foliation different Newari figures in the middle right-hand margin and middle left-hand margin of the verso.

Scribe Maṇikarājacandra Vajrācārya

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 5/841

Manuscript Features

Restored folios 1r–1v,

Partial damages on the margin.

Unidentified Tantric text appears in three different hands on exp. 2 and 3t, 3b and 4t. and rest of the Vajrāvalī text appears in another hands.

Restored folios in 1r–1v, 49r–51v

Excerpts

Beginning

❖ namaḥ śrīvajrasatvāya ||

vande śrīkuliśeśvaraṃ †(smasuremārāha)†bhavān alpada

krodhādhāvata dikṣu maṅgalagiro gāyanta vajrāṅganāḥ ||

śrīmadvajrabhṛto mahimnijagadāḥ dhātuṃ mahāmaṇḍale<ref name="ftn1">^{Unmetrical pāda}</ref>

niṣpratyūham ihābhayasya mahasā vajrāvalī mīlatu ||

antarbahivajrabhṛte vajrā<ref name="ftn2">^{Unmetrical pāda}</ref>

paraṃparābhir dvigatā hṛdīyaṃ |

yajjyotir antas timiraṃ nirasye

śrīvajrabhṛt mūrttimatī vibhartti || (exp. 4, fol. 1r1–3)

End

...trivajravajraghaṇṭālakṣaṇādi vidhiḥ || ||

iti paramamunīnāṃ vag udanvantyagādhe

śrutimadhinapariyuḥ kepi kepi plavan te |

sakṛpam atimahimnām māta†⟨ṃ⟩ran tarn†nimajjyā-

mṛtam idam upanītaṃ prītaye te bhajantau(!) ||

sukṛtam uditam uccair jyotir antarjvalad yat

prasṛtam iha mahimnā mākara(syāṇḍatāsmaṃ)

vilasatu mama vajrapreyasī sargadhāmni

trijagadabhayabhartur maṇḍale viśvamūrtteḥ || ||

Colophon

mahāpaṇḍitābhayākaraguptaracitā vajrāvalī nāma maṇḍalopai(!)kā samāptā || || (fol.83v: exp. 88:5)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 31/14

Date of Filming 19-10-1970

Exposures 89

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by MS/RA

Date 05-02-2009

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