B 12-16(3) Pīṭhikāstotra

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 12/16
Title: Triśaktimāhātmya
Dimensions: 20.5 x 4.5 cm x 68 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Stotra
Date: NS 555
Acc No.: NAK 5/453
Remarks: as Varāhapurāṇa, B 1/4; various ms

Reel No. B 12-16c

Title Pīṭhikāstotra

Subject Stotra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material palm-leaf

State incomplete

Size 20.5 x 4.5 cm

Binding Hole 1, left of the centre

Folios 68

Lines per Folio 4-5

Foliation figures in the left margin of the verso

Date of Copying

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 5-453

Manuscript Features

This bundle is a combination of several short manuscripts with stotras. Some pages have been filmed twice. Some of the texts are incomplete and without name, some are dated. The following is a list of the contents of the complete manuscript on the basis of the microfilm exposures:

• exp. 002-008 = 020-026 = Pīṭhikāstotra
• exp. 008-010 = 062-064 = Gurumaṇḍalapūjā
• exp. 011-013 = 065-068 = Pīṭhikāstotra
• exp. 016-017 = names of Śiva and names of Sūrya
• exp. 027-030 = (Caṇḍikāpūjāvidhi)
• exp. 031-035 = B 12-16(5) Saptaśatidevīkavaca
• exp. 036-039 = Pīṭhikāstotra
• exp. 039-040 = 1 folio without foliation, the recto begins: somyā bhṛgurevatīś caḥ kūjā asuni amṛtasidhijoga || ends: jātrā yā maranaṃ ceva, nāsti te sevāphalaṃ, the two lines on the verso are illegible.
• exp. 041-046 = (Akṣarastotra)
• exp. 047-055 = Triśaktimāhātmya
• exp. 056-061 = B 12-16(9)Saptaśatidevīkavaca (very similar to B 12-16(5))
• exp. 062-068 = exp. 008-013
• exp. 069-078 = Bhāratasāvitrī
• exp. 079 = empty page
• exp. 080-085 = Saptaśatidevīkavaca
• exp. 085-087 = Nārāyaṇadvādaśanāma
• exp. 087-091 = (Vāsudevastotra)
• exp. 091-093 = Ṣaḍakṣarastotra

Excerpts

Beginning

vet || kuṇḍo vā maṇḍale vāpi prati māyāṃ paṭo pi vā |
liṃgadakṣiṇamūrtto vā jalamadhyagato pi vā |
trikālaṃm ekakālaṃ vā yaḥ paṭhe stu śubhāvitaḥ | (fol. 5v1-2) (exp. 013)

End

sarvva saṃpāditaṃ tubhyaṃ hy ājñānadakramārṇṇavaṃ ||
idāni śṛṇu kalyāni kālacakraṃ yathāsthitaṃ || (fol. 7r4-7v1) (exp. 012-011)

Colophon

iti samastavyaktavyāptinivatuyo nāma pīṭhakāstotra samāptaḥ || ❁ || samvat 555 vaisāṣaśuklapradipadyāṃ(!) tithau aśuninakṣetre(!) siddhijo gevudavāsarot | liti manate jasyo 'rthena bhavatu svabham(!) astu sarvvadā | śubhaḥ || ❁ || ❁ || ❁ || ❁ ||<ref>^{After the colophon follow two lines with mantras.}</ref> (fol. 7v1-3) (exp. 011) <references/>

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 12/16

Date of Filming 19-08-1970

Exposures 93

Used Copy Berlin

Type of Film negative

Catalogued by AM

Date 29-09-2010