A 1178-1 Brahmayāmala(tantra)
Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: A 1178/1
Title: Brahmayāmala(tantra)
Dimensions: 41.5 x 10.2 cm x 255 folios
Material: paper?
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Devanagari; Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Tantra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/296
Remarks:
Reel No. A 1178/1
Inventory No. 91975
Title Brahmayāmala
Remarks
Author
Subject Tantra
Language Sanskrit
Manuscript Details
Script Newari and Devanagari
Material Nepali loose paper
State incomplete
Size 41.5 x 10.2 cm
Binding Hole
Folios 255
Lines per Folio 5–13
Foliation figures in the middle of the right-hand margin under the word yāmala on the verso; in some folios folio numbers are also given in the middle of the left-hand margin.
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 1/296
Manuscript Features
The MS contains many scribal errors.
In exps. 214b–242t there are 28 folios of the different MS of the same text. This MS is written in Devanagari script.
Excerpts
Beginning
❖ oṃ namaḥ śivādibhyo gurubhya yogīśvarīṇā || ||
ya phala mantra gabha sakalaṃ śivamayaṃ hetunirvvāṇaviśvaṃ |
dūtīnāṃ padmakhaṇḍe samasraśvavilasal liṅgarūpaṃ vibhūrtiḥ ||
nānābhogādhivāsair dvividhanayapadaiḥ śaktinā varddhakāṇḍe
tat tatvaṃ viśvagarbhaṃ bhavanagadalanam bhairavas vaḥ punātu ||
śrutvā mantrapraro devo mūlatantramahodayaḥ |
mudrāmaṇḍalamantroghe vidyāpīṭhepalakṣitaḥ ||
sahasrāṇi daśa dve ca catuḥ pīṭhan tu bhairavaḥ ||
vimalānirggataṃ ye tud aghorī bhīmavikramā || (fol. 1v1–3)
End
brahmayāmalatantredaṃ lakṣapādādhikāṃ śataṃ ||
śatako prapjñajvalā tantrāt sārāt sāratarottaraṃ ||
sthitaṃ dvādaśasāhasraṃ pañca pañcasūtrājvalaṃ sataṃ ||
mayā te kathitam bhadre bhadrasiddhipradāyakaṃ || ○ || (fol. 248v2–3)
Colophon
iti bhairavasrotasi mahātantre vidyāpīṭha brahmayāmale navākṣaravidhāne picumate dvādaśasāhasrake ekottaraśatimaḥ paṭalaḥ samāptaḥ || ❖ || samvat (fol. 248v3)
Microfilm Details
Reel No. A 1159/15
Date of Filming 26-12-1986
Exposures 3
Used Copy Kathmandu
Type of Film positive
Remarks
Catalogued by RT
Date 21-02-2011
