A 177-19 Mantramahodadhi

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 177/19
Title: Mantramahodadhi
Dimensions: 26.5 x 10 cm x 95 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Mantra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 4/1803
Remarks: continues to A 178/1

Reel No. A 177-19

Inventory No.: 35148

Title Mantramahodadhi

Author Mahīdhara

Subject Śaivatantra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material Nepali paper

State complete

Size 26.5 x 10.0 cm

Folios 95

Lines per Folio 8–10

Foliation figures on the verso, in the upper left-hand margin under the marginal title ma.mo. and in the lower right-hand margin under the word rāmaḥ

Scribe Tārānidhi

Date of Copying ŚS 1645 / 1718

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 4/1803

Manuscript Features

MS is dated ŚS 1645.

Table of contains is in exp. 2.

Text seems in different hands on exp. 44b–48.

Excerpts

śrigaṇeśāya namaḥ

praṇamya lakṣmīṃ nṛhariṃ mahāgaṇapatiṃ gurūṃ

taṃtrāṇy anekāny ālokya vakṣye maṃtramahodadhiṃ  1

prātar utthāya śirasi dhyātvā gurūpa(2)dāṃbujaṃ

āvaśyakaṃ vinirvartya snātuṃ yāyāt sarittaṭe 2

śrautena vidhinā snātvā maṃtrasnānaṃ samācaret

smārtasaṃdhyāṃ maṃtrasaṃdhyāṃ kṛtvā devaṃ viciṃtaye(3)t 3 (fol. 1v1–3)

End

viśveśo girijāviṃdumādhavo maṇikarṃikā

(7) bhairavo jāhnavī daṃḍapāṇir me tanvatāṃ śīvaṃ 131

abde vikramato yāte vāṇavede nṛpaimiti (!)

jyeṣṭāṣṭamyāṃ śīvasyāgre pūrṇo maṃtramahoda(8)dhiḥ 132 (fol. 95v6–8)

Colophon

iti śrīmanmahīdharaviracite maṃtramahodadhau ṣaṭkarmādinirūpaṇaṃ paṃcaviṃśas taraṃgaḥ 

aṣṭādaśāṃbhoda mite śake site

pakṣe (10) daśamyāṃ śaśivāsare gurau

kuṃbhasthite +++++dhive likhat

tārānidhir maṃtramahodadhiṃ mudā

śubhaṃ bhūyāt (fol. 95v9–10)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 0177/19–A 0188/01

Date of Filming 25-10-1971

Exposures 48+55

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks two exposures of fols. 14v–15r, 27v–28r, 34v–35r

Catalogued by MS

Date 21-05-2007

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