B 139-4 Mantracandrikā

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 139/4
Title: Mantracandrikā
Dimensions: 29.5 x 12 cm x 110 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Mantra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 5/469
Remarks:

Reel No. B 139-4 Inventory No. 34989

Title Mantracandrikā

Subject Śaiva Tantra

Language Sanskrit

Reference BSP 4.2, p 37 (given in the NGMPP catalogue card)

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State complete

Size 29.5 x 12.0 cm

Folios 108

Lines per Folio 9

Foliation figures on the verso, in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation maṃ. caṃ. and in the lower right-hand margin under the word rāma

Date of Copying SAM 1838

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 4/469

Manuscript Features

After the colophon (probably added later) is written two verses containing the description of the date of copying. But the verses are partially illegible.

maṃtracaṃdrikādvādaśaprakārāḥ ||

Two exposures of fols. 24v–25r.

Fols. 25 and 26 have not been assigned. But, the text seems continuous.

Excerpts

Beginning

śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ||

āraktāmaṃtrinetraṃ pṛthujaṭharataraṃ vedahastān dadhānaṃ

vibhrāṇaṃ maulideśe himaka[[rasaka]]laṃ dānadhārāptakuṃbhaṃ |

brahmendrādyaiḥ samastair amaraparivṛḍhaiḥ sevitaṃ śu⟪r⟫bhradaṃtaṃ

bhogīndrāḍhyaṃ prasannaṃ sakalaśūbhakaraṃ taṃ bhaje haṃ gajāsyaṃ || 1 ||

uditadivākaradehāṃ puraharavāmāṃgakṛtadehāṃ |

paripūritabhaktehāṃ †sasmeśehāṃ† śailajāṃ vaṃde || 2 ||

pīyu(!)ṣāṃśukalāmanā(!)jñamukuṭāṃ śaivālatulyālakāṃ

bhālaśrīvijitāṣṭamīśaśadharāṃ nīlāraviṃdekṣaṇāṃ

cāpaṃ vāṇaguṇāṃkuśān mṛdutaraiḥ saṃbibhratāṃ bāhubhiḥ

pratyaṃgaṃ sumanoramām aruṇabhā[ṃ] ⟪vaṃ⟫ vaṃde girīndrātmajāṃ || 3 ||

…

janārddanābhidhas teṣu yathāmati kutūhalāt |

tāṃtrikātmani †dhodhāya† kurute maṃtracaṃdrikāṃ |

…

atha krameṇa gaṇeśādīn smṛttvā teṣāṃ maṃtrā maṃtrabhedāś ca likhyaṃte || atha gaṇeśamaṃtrāḥ | tatrādāv ekākṣaro gaṇeśamaṃtraḥ | iti gaṇeśamaṃtreṇa prāṇāyāmatrayaṃ kṛtvā | śirasi oṁ gaṇakāya ṛṣaye namaḥ | mukhe †nivṛc†chaṃdase namaḥ hṛdaye oṁ vighneśvarāya devatāyai guhye brahmabījāya | pādayoḥ | (fol. 1v1–5, 2v2–3 and 2v5–8)

End

vaṃśāsanaṃ vastraṃ ca kevalaṃ kṣitim āsanaṃ,

evam aṣṭavidhaṃ devī hy āsanaṃ parivarjayet,

tṛṇāsane bhaved rogaḥ pallave cittavibhramaḥ,

pāṣāṇe ca tathoccāṭo jvaraḥ syān manmayāsane,

kṣityāsane bhavet pīḍā pāpavisphoṭaduḥkhadā

vaṃśāsane daridraḥ syād vastre sthānavināśanaṃ

ciṃtā ca prabalā hāni[r] hy uccāṭo vividho jvaraḥ,

śokaśūlādikā rogā mṛtyuḥ syād ārukāsane,

itthaṃ vāṣṭāsanaṃ devi varjayet sarvakarmasu,

ity āsanāni (fol. 110r9–110v4)

Colophon

iti maṃtracandrikāyāṃ dvādaśaprakāra[ḥ] samāptaḥ śubha(!)

likhitam idaṃ pustakaṃ kāyaṣṭha(!)viṣṇunāmnena(!),

śrīrāmahṛdayapaṃḍitako samvat 1838 sāla vaiśāṣa śudi 5 nakṣatra 6 joga 7 roja 7 likhita saṃpūrṇa śūbhaḥ ghraṃṭha(!) saṃkhyā 2300 (fol. 110v4–6)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 0139/04

Date of Filming 25-10-1971

Exposures 112

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by BK

Date 16-07-2008

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