A 177-7 Mantraratnākara

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 177/7
Title: Mantraratnākara
Dimensions: 31.5 x 11 cm x 36 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Mantra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/169
Remarks: folio number uncertain;

Reel No. A 177-7 Inventory No. 37477

Title Mantraratnākara

Subject Śaivatantra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State incomplete; missing folios are: 1–8

Size 31.5 x 11.0 cm

Folios 53-8-1=44

Lines per Folio 9

Foliation figures in the middle right-hand margin on the verso

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 1/169

Manuscript Features

By mistake, the scriber has written the both folio numbers, 16 and 17 in the same folio.

Thus, we will not have these two folios separately; the text doesn't get interrupted due to this wrong foliation.

Excerpts

Beginning

-/// śivamayo bhavet ||

prātikūlyaṃ guro nityaṃ, manasāpi na vācaret |

guro śaryyāsanaṃ thānaṃ (!) upāna tpīṭhapādukāṃ |

snānodakaṃ tathā(2)cchāyāṃ, laṃghacanna (!) kadācana |

yasya nāsti guro (!) bhakti, jñānaṃ cāpi tathābhidhaṃ |

na tasya jāyate siddhiḥ kalpakoṭiśatair api (3) ||

guro (!) bhakti (!) sadā kāryyā, guruś ced doṣasaṃyutāḥ | (fol. 9r1–3)

End

śrutismṛtiviro(8)dhena, japaṃ rātrau vivarjjayet ||

gurave dakṣiṇān dadyāt, bhojanācchādanādibhi (!) ||

gurusaṃtoṣamātreṇa, mantrasiddhir bhaved dhruvaṃ ||

(9) gurumūlam idaṃ sarvva,m ity āhus tantravedinaḥ ||

ekagrāmasthito nityaṃ, gatvā vandeta vai guruṃ ||

gurur eva paraṃ brahma, tasmād-ā-/// (fol. 53v7–9)

«Sub-colophon:»

iti śrīmantraratnākare saptamaḥ paṭalaḥ || (fol. 46v3)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 177/7

Date of Filming 25-10-1971

Exposures 48

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks two exposures of fols. 20v–21r

Catalogued by

Date 08-03-2007

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