A 162-3 Tārābhaktisudhārṇava

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 162/3
Title: Tārābhaktisudhārṇava
Dimensions: 40 x 9.5 cm x 227 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Maithili; Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Tantra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/178
Remarks:

Reel No. A 162-3 Inventory No. 76601

Title Tārābhaktisudhārṇava

Author Narasiṃha Ṭhakkura

Subject Tantra

Language Sanskrit

Reference BSP, 4.1, p. 162, no. 345 (1/178)

Manuscript Details

Script Newari, Maithili

Material Nepali paper

State complete

Size 40.0 x 9.5 cm

Folios 227

Lines per Folio 8

Foliation figures in the middle right-hand margin of the verso fols. 1-28 in devanagari script and in the middle left-hand margin with word śrī in Maithili script

Scribe Vīrabhadra

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 1/178

Manuscript Features

Text continues in Maithili script from the exp. 32b–202 and rests in devanagari.

Excerpts

Beginning

oṃ namaḥ śrīkṛṣṇakāli[[kā]]mahāgaṇeśebhyaḥ

saunāsīramaṇipravīṇajaladagrāmābhirāmacchaviṃ

nṛtyat pītapaṭadvayaikakapaṭaprodyat parāgojjvalaṃ ||

vaṃśīvādanakaitavapravilasad ga(2)mbhīradhīradhvaniṃ |

vande kañcid ahaṃ mudā madhulihaṃ hṛtpadmamadhyasthitaṃ || (fol. 1v1–2)

End

svagātrarudhiraṃ dātuṃ kṣatriyāder bhaved vidhiḥ ||

sātviko jīvahatyāṃ hi kadācid no caret ||

ikṣudaṇḍañ ca kuṣmāṇḍaṃ tathā ⟨m⟩anya phalādikam ||

kṣīrapiṇḍai(5)ḥ śālicūrṇaiḥ paśu (!) kṛtvā cared baliṃ ||

tattadphalaviśena (!) tattat paśum upānayet ||

kuṣmāṇḍaṃ mahiṣatvenac chagalatvena karkkaṭīṃ || 0 ||(fol. 227r4–5)

Colophon

iti mahāmahopādhyā(6)ya saṭṭhakkura śrīnarasiṃhaviracito tārābhaktisudhārṇṇave kāmyavidhir ddaśamas taraṅgaḥ || ○ || ❖ || 0❖0 || śrībhavānyai namaḥ || liṣitaṃ virabhadreṇa śivaḥ || (fol. 227r5–6)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 162/3

Date of Filming 15-10-1971

Exposures 235

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks two exposures of fols. 23v–24r,

Catalogued by MS

Date 17-05-2007

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