B 141-1 Mantraratnākara

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 141/1
Title: Mantraratnākara
Dimensions: 44 x 12 cm x 181 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Mantra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/286
Remarks: continuation from B 140/4

Reel No. B 141-1 Inventory No. 37458

Title Mantraratnākara

Author Yadunātha Cakravartī

Subject Śaivatantra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State incomplete, missing folio is: 179

Size 44.0 x 12.0 cm

Folios 180

Lines per Folio 11

Foliation figures in the middle right-hand margin on the verso

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 1/286

Manuscript Features

Excerpts

Beginning

oṃ namo gaṇeśāya ||

yaṃ dhyāyaṃti [ni]raṃ[taraṃ] munigaṇāḥ paśyaṃti yaṃ yogino

yaṃ gāyaṃti parasparaṃ śrutigaṇāṃ(!) [ve]dāntavedyaṃ paraṃ ||

brahmādyaiḥ parisevitaṃ (!) suraguru (!) tyaktaṃ guṇaiḥ sāśvataṃ (!)

vante (!) tam puraṣottamaṃ (!) trijagatām ānandakandaṃ mahaḥ ||

natvā devendravandyaṃ tribhuvanajanakaṃ viśvanāthaṃ maheśaṃ

gau(!)viśveśavaṃdyāṃ tribhuvanajananīṃ bhāratīñ ca praṇamya ||

natvā gairīsutan ta (!) kaṃ(!)ripativadanaṃ vighnarājaṃ gaṇeśaṃ

natvā devān aśeṣān akhilabhayaharā (!) granthavaryyaṅ karomi ||

vilokya bahutantrāni(!) ya[du]nāthena dhīmatā ||

mantraratnākaro granthaḥ kriyate sārasaṃgrahaḥ || (fol. 1v1–3)

End

iha saṃttahitaḥ(!) svacittavṛtti-

pratimāyāḥ pratijalpanaṃ karoti |

gamanaṃ ca naraḥ puraḥ pareṣāṃ

punar utthāpanam apy aho mṛtasya || 

sthānasāsya jñānamātreṇa puṃsāṃ

saṃsāre[ʼ]smin asaṃbhavo naiva bhūayaḥ ||

bhūtagrāmasamtato[ʼ]bhyāsato[ʼ]smin

karttuṃ harttuṃ syāc ca śaktiḥ samagrāḥ || || || (fol. 181r8–9)

Colophon

iti śrīgauḍadeśīyamahāmahopādhyāyaśrīvidyābhūṣaṇa-bhaṭṭāccāryyātmaja||śrīyadunāthacakravarttiviracite śrīmantraratnākare daśamas taraṃgaḥ samāptaś cāyaṃ graṃthaḥ ||  || || || || (fol. 181r9–10)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 141/1

Date of Filming 25-10-1971

Exposures 195

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks two exposures of fols. 43v–44r, 48v–49r, 72v–73r, 77v–78r, 90v–91r, 97v–98r, 99v–100r and 120v–121r

Catalogued by BK

Date 02-10-2007

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