B 13-34(1) Śivarātrivratakathā (1)

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 13/34
Title: Śivarātrivratakathā
Dimensions: 24 x 4 cm x 20 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Karmakāṇḍa (vaidika, āgamika, tāntrika etc.)
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/1078
Remarks:

Reel No. B 13/34

Title Śivarātrivratakathā

Remarks assigned to the Śivapurāṇa

Subject Kathā

Language Sanskrit

Text Features The beginning of the text is the same as in B 13/33, but the end is different.

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material palm-leaf

State complete and undamaged

Size 24 x 4 cm

Binding Hole 1 in the centre left

Folios 22

Lines per Folio 4–5

Foliation figures in the right margin of the verso

Date of Copying

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 1-1078

Manuscript Features

A combination of two Śivarātrivratakathā manuscripts: the first complete with 17 folios and the second incomplete with 5 folios. The extant folios of the second part are 1-2 and 34-36.

A folio in the end, written in a later hand, gives a very short Pañcavaktrapūjāvidhāna:

oṃ hūṃ śivāya nama (!) | oṃ hrīṃ tatpuruṣāya nama (!) || oṃ hraṃ aghorāya nama (!) || oṃ haiṃ vāmadevāya nama (!) || oṃ hrīḥ sadyojātāya nama || oṃ hreṃ śivāya svāhā || ityanena nevedyaṃ (!) dadyāt || svāhāṃte vācamanaṃ || aneneva (!) prakārena kuryāt dyāvāhanaṃ (!) nama (!) || antakāle mahākośe śivasyānucaroti (!) ca || puṣpāñjaliṃ traya (!) dadyāt || iti pañcavaktrapūjāvidhānaṃ || hūṃ ῑṣānāya namaḥ || bhavet || etc.

Excerpts

Beginning

❖ oṃ namaḥ śivāya ||

kailāśasiṣa[[rā]]sīnaṃ devadevaṃ jagadguruṃ |
pañcavaktre (!) daṣabhujaṃ trinetraṃ śūlapāninaṃ (!) ||
bhasmāga(!)vyālasobhāḍhyaṃ saśāṃkakṛtasekharaṃ | etc. (fol. 1v1–2)

śṛnu (!) devī (!) yathāvṛttaṃ (!) kathā (!) paurānikīm (!) imāṃ |
yamaśāśanahaṃtrī ca śivasyāna(!)pradāyinī || (fol. 2r1–2)

End

bhāvahīno tu ye devi jāgarti śivasarvvarī |(!)
na te yamapurīṃ yāti jatrāhaṃ(!) tara te dhruvaṃ ||
yaś caivaṃ bhaktiyuktas tu japates tu(?) tatparaḥ |
śṛṇvanti bhāvayuktās te te pi yānti mamālayaṃ |
śivarātris(!) tu māhātmyaṃ yaḥ paṭhec chivasaṃnibhau |
sarvvapāpavimuktas tu śivaṃloke(!) mahīyate || (fol. 16v4–17r3)

Colophon

iti śivapurāṇe śivarātrivratakathā samāpta(!)|| śubha || (fol. 17r3)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 13/34

Date of Filming 24-08-1970

Exposures 20

Used Copy Berlin

Type of Film negative

Catalogued by DA

Date 2002