A 1012-4 Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 1012/4
Title: Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa
Dimensions: 31.2 x 15.3 cm x 105 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Purāṇa
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 6/878
Remarks: Lalitākhyāna; =E 266/14?

Reel No. A 1012-4

Inventory No. 12424

Title Lalitopākhyāna

Remarks This text is assigned to the uttarabhāga of the Brahmāṇdapurāṇa.

Author

Subject Purāṇa

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Nagari

Material paper

State incomplete

Size 31.2 x 15.3 cm

Binding Hole

Folios 105

Lines per Folio 12

Foliation figures in both margins of the verso; Marginal title: braºº puºº ṇa

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 6-878

Manuscript Features

Text is disrupted after the first folio though a folio is not missing. The opening of the text is different in the MS than in printed editions.

Excerpts

Beginning

śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ||
oṃ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya ||    ||
prapadye devam īśānaṃ śāśvataṃ dhruvam avyayaṃ ||
maheśvaraṃ mahātmānaṃ viśvasya jagataḥ patim ||
prabhuṃ bhūtabhaviṣyasya sāmpratasya ca satpatiṃ ||
jñānam apratimaṃ tasya vairāgyaṃ ca jagatpateḥ || …
brahmavāyumaheśebhyo namaskṛtvā samāhitaḥ ||
ṛṣīṇāṃ ca variṣṭhāya vaṣiṣṭhāya mahātmane ||
tannaptre cātiyaśase jātūkarṇyāya varṣaye ||
vāsaveyāya śucaye kṛṣṇadvaipāyanāya ca ||
purāṇaṃ saṃpravakṣyāmi brahmāṇḍaṃ vedasasmitaṃ || (fol. 1v1–3, 6–8)

End

hṛnmadhye vinyased devīm akhaṃḍajagadātmikāṃ ||
cakreśvarī(!) hṛdi nyasya kṛtvā cakrasamarpaṇaṃ ||
mudrāṃ pradarśya yonyākhyāṃ sarvānandam anunyaset
ity ātmani nyastacakraḥ sākṣād devī bhaviṣyati ||    || (fol. 105v1–3)

Colophon

iti śrībrahmāṃḍottarapurāṇe hayagrīvāgastyasaṃvāde lalitākhyāne nyāsavidhir nāma vilāso ʼdhyāyaḥ || 40 ||    || śubham astu sarvadā samāptam ||    || śubhm || (fol. 105v3–4)

(with a later hand in Nepālī:)

hāla trīpureśvara basne saradāra bhupadhojabāṭa dāna pāī lyāyeko laºº puºº īºº matsyagrāmanīvāsī paṃºº rāmū ḍhuṅgānāºº pustakaṃm īdaṃ (fol. 105v5–7)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 1012/4

Date of Filming 19-5-85

Exposures 107

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks

Catalogued by DA

Date 24-02-2003