B 34-11 Nityaprakāśa
Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: B 34/11
Title: Nityaprakāśa
Dimensions: 29.5 x 4.5 cm x 6 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition:
Scripts: unknown
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Karmakāṇḍa (vaidika, āgamika, tāntrika etc.)
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 5/8020
Remarks:
Reel No. B 34-11
Inventory No. 48274
Title Nityaprakāśa
Author Vīracandra
Subject Tantra
Language Sanskrit
Text Features Manual on the daily rites in śaiva tantric religious practice. The author is called śaivācaryaśrīvīracandra in one sub-colophon, another work of his is mentioned, the Caturviṃśatiprakāśa. Other works are quoted, as Ciñciṇīnātha’s Kramanirṇaya. This school seems to belong to the western branch of śaiva tantras (paścimānvaya). In the Nityakaumudī, a commentary on this text by Gaṅgādhara, it is said that the Nityaprakāśa was compiled in the year 994 (cf. B 34/11).
Manuscript Details
Script Newari
Material palm-leaf
State incomplete
Size 29.5 x 4.5 cm
Binding Hole 1, rectangular, somewhat to the left
Folios 6
Lines per Folio 5
Foliation figures in the middle of the left-hand margin of the verso
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 5/8020
Manuscript Features
The following fols. are extant: 11–14; 16; 19. The writing on the verso of fol. 19 is partly rubbed off. In the left-hand margin of fol. 16v has been written the following in Devanagari characters: nityaprakāśa vīracandrasya.
Excerpts
Beginning
5 jaṃghayoḥ || 5 namaḥ sarvva.apratihatamatīnāṃ oṁ jāṃnauḥ (!) || 5 namaḥ svarūpapararūpaparivarttanīnāṃ 5 ūrvv⟪au⟫oḥ || 5 namaḥ sarvvasatvavaśīkaraṇaucchādanaunmūla(n)īnāṃ 5 pānau || (2) 5 namaḥ samastakarmmaparivarttakānāṃ 5 medasi || 5 na⟪ma⟩⟩〇mo guhyasarvvamātṛṇāṃ 5 guhye || 5 namaḥ paramasiddhikariparamaduḥkarakarmmacchedanakari[[siddhikari]]mātṛ(3)ṇāṃ vacanaṃ śubhaṃ 5 liṅg[[e]] || ❖ || 5 aiṁ brahmāṇi amoghe 〇 varadevi cce 5 hṛdi || 5 aiṁ māheśvarī amoghe varadevi cce 5 kaṇṭhe || 5 aiṁ kaumārī amoghe varadevi cce (4) 5 tāluni || 5 aiṁ vaiṣṇavī am[[o]]ghe varadevi cce 5 vaktre || 〇5 aiṁ vārāhī amoghe varadevi cce || nāśikāyāṃ || 5 aiṁ aindrānī amoghe varadevi cce || kodaṇḍe || (5) 5 aiṁ cāmuṇḍe amoghe varadevi cce 5 || tadūrdhve || 5 aiṁ mahālakṣmī amoghe varadevi cce 5 || śirovivare || 5 aiṁ cāmuṇḍe 5 lalāṭe || 5 aiṁ ūrdhvakeśi 5 keśe || oṁ aiṁ prajvalaka(11v1)sikhe 5 sikhāyāṃ 5 ||
(fol. 11r1–11v1)
Extracts
oṁ hrīṁ kulabaṭukāya namaḥ || oṁ laḥ ceṭakāya namaḥ || 〇 || iti śāṃtyādibalitrayaṃ || 14 ||
etat sarvvaṃ talpa(gat)aṃ ⁅kṛtvā⁆ cāvaśyakaṃ bha(jet) ||
iti proktaṃ (3) ciñciṇīśanāthena kramanirṇṇaye |
mayā śrīvīraca〇ndreṇa saṃmyak (!) jñātvāgamādiṣu ||
likhitaṃ tu visidhyarthaṃ puṃsām anvayasevināṃ |
yaḥ saṃsāramahāṃ(4)burāśitaraṇi[[ḥ]] sraṣṭā sthitau saṃhṛtau
sūtau śabdapare 〇 guruś ca bhagavān dvaṃdvo vipadvāsināṃ ||
kāruṇyād atirasmimān api nṛṇāṃ mokṣāya dehī bhave(5)d
raktaḥ saṃbhunavaḥ satāṃ śubhagati śrīvīracandreṇa saḥ || ❁ ||
(fol. 12v2–5)
End
-sāḥ sarvvān vayoditāḥ ||
catu[[ḥ]]śaṣṭipadādīnāṃ prathamānāṃ samīritā[[ḥ]] |
candragarbhādito nyāsās teṣu ṣaṭ paścimānvayāḥ ||
kvacit kvacid daśaṃ pūrṇṇās te saṃgrahe va(2)rmiṇāḥ (!) ||
ata (!) pañca ma..na śrutvā pūrṇṇaṃ kṛtvā li〇khāmy ahaṃ |
mūrttyā kecid asaṃpūrṇṇā(sty) aṃgaiḥ kecic ca kūṭakaiḥ ||
kecid bhedair (l)ayer atra sarvvāṃgaiḥ (3) pūrṇṇatā matā ||
ṣaṭ prakāravasodvākhyaḥ vācī[[saṃkhyā?]]ni〇nādavān |
ṣaṭ śabde ca bhavet tena ṣoḍhā ṣaḍ vā dvibhūrūpakaṃ (!) ||
ṣoḍhā ṣoḍaśasaṃkhyāni kulāri(4)vaca[[[nā]]d bhavet |
yoktisevāstu mūrkhāṇāṃ teṣāṃ〇m (!) aśeṣajanmane ||
svastikāsana[[kaṃ]] badhvā namaskṛtya padadvayaṃ |
gurvyor ādināthadvayo devātyaṃ (5) śaṃsam ārabhet ||
tadante paramaṃ dhāma guruvākyaupadeśajaḥ
tanmayaṃ bhāvayitvā tu sarvan dhāmān bhajen naraḥ ||
sva..diśā(li)no bhūtvā sthairyaṃ kṛtvā na bha-
(fol. 19r1–5)
Sub-colophon
iti caturvviṃśatiprakāśakārapaṇḍitaśaivācāryyaśrīvīracandrakṛte nityaprakāse kūṭādiprakāśa(13r1)ḥ prathamaḥ || ❁ ||
(fol. 12v5–13r1)
Microfilm Details
Reel No. B 34/11
Date of Filming 23-10-1970
Exposures 9
Used Copy Berlin
Type of Film negative
Catalogued by OH
Date 01-03-2005
