A 1035-2 Holikāmāhātmya

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 1035/2
Title: Holikāmāhātmya
Dimensions: 24.4 x 10.8 cm x 29 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Stotra
Date: VS 1851
Acc No.: NAK 5/5405
Remarks:

Reel No. A 1035-2

Inventory No.: 23990

Title Holikāmāhātmya

Remarks part of the Pātālakhaṇḍa of the Padmapurāṇa; the mahātmya is referred to in the text as Holikāvratamahātmya.

Subject Māhātmya

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material Indian paper

State complete

Size 24.5 x 10.5 cm

Folios 29

Lines per Folio 9

Foliation figures on the verso, in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation ho./ holi. and in the lower right-hand margin under the word heraṃba

Date of Copying SAM 1851

Owner / Deliverer

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 5/5405

Manuscript Features

Excerpts

Beginning

|| śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ||

sūta uvāca

śṛṇu[[dhvaṃ]] ṛṣayaḥ sarve guptā⟨j⟩d guptataraṃ mahat ||

holikāvratamahātmyaṃ vistareṇa tapodhanāḥ 1

phālguna(!)sya site pakṣe [[pra]]kuryād vrata[[m utta]]maṃ ||

sarvakāmapradaṃ nṝṇāṃ nārīṇāṃ ca viśeṣataḥ 2

sāyaṃ pūjayate yas tu holikāṃ bhaktavatsalāṃ ||

bhasmīkuryā[[t sa]] pāpāni nātra kāryā vicāraṇā 3

pūrṇāyāṃ prātar utthāya śuciḥ prayatamānasaḥ

tīrthe snātvā śucir bhūtvā śuklavāsā gṛhaṃ vrajet 4 (fol. 1v1–5 )

End

vratasyāsya prabhāvena(!) deveṃdro lokam āptavān

nāradaṃ preṣayāmāsa bhuvi lokaṃ jagāda saḥ 87

rājarṣiprabhṛtīn sarvān upadiśya vrataṃ tv idaṃ

gṛṇaṃ nāma sa ca satyaloka[ṃ] jagāda saḥ 87(!)

rājarṣiprabhṛtīn sarvān upadiśya vrataṃ tv idaṃ

[sa]rvakāmapradaṃ nṝnāṃ ki⟨ṃ⟩m anya(!) śrotum ichatha⟨ḥ⟩ 89 (fol. 28v7–29r2 )

Colophon

iti śrīpadmapurāṇe pātālakhaṃḍe ho[[li]]kāmā[hā]tmye varapradaḥ(!)kaṃ(!) nāma ṣaṣṭho dhyāyaḥ saṃvat 1851 samai(!) nāma ca-ita śudī ❁ rāma jo pratī deṣā so pratī līkhā varapradaṃḥ(!)|| ❁❁❁❁❁❁❁❁❁❁❁❁ ... (fol. 29r2–5 )

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 1035/2

Date of Filming 06-11-1985

Exposures 32

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by MS

Date 17-07-2008

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