C 6-10(1) Kulamūlaratnapañcakāvatāra

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: C 6/10
Title: Nityārcana(?)
Dimensions: 28.8 x 4.9 cm x 27 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Karmakāṇḍa (vaidika, āgamika, tāntrika etc.)
Date:
Acc No.: Kesar 74
Remarks:

Reel No. C 6-10a

Title Kulamūlaratnapañcakāvatāra

Remarks

Subject Śaivatantra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material palm-leaf

State incomplete

Size 29.1 x 4.9 cm

Binding Hole 1, left of the centre

Folios 205

Lines per Folio 5

Foliation figures in the left margin of the verso

Date of Copying

Place of Deposit Kesar Library

Accession No. 74

Manuscript Features

The bundle contains parts of 5 manuscripts plus a number of prakīrṇapattrāṇi:

• 1 isolated folio, numbered as one, which contains the beginning of the Kulamūlaratnapañcakāvatāra.

• 32 folios of a Kriyākāṇḍakramāvalī (=Somaśambhupaddhati) manuscript.

• 55 folios of another Somaśambhupaddhati manuscript. The extant folios in the order on the microfilm are: x<ref>^{The foliation is missing.}</ref>, 22-39, 44-52, 43-40, x, x, 20, 19, 21, 18, x, (61), 2, 60-54, x, x, 8, 10-17, 9, x, 7, 3, 1. Writing is fainted/rubbed off on fols. 60-61.

• 5 heavily damaged folios which begin: °kujāmate || and end:svā(rthe) ṣaṭtriṃśasaṃkhyāś ca śeṣaiḥ puruṣasaṃkhyayā || gaṇavaṭukasūryāṇāṃ vahnau ca dvārapālake |

• 1 folio which contains a colophon: śrīmatkarṇṇaprakāśavyavaharaṇāyāṃ sasamasaṃvatsare kriyākāṇḍakramāvalīpustakaṃ paṇḍitācāryaśrīsomaśivena viracitaṃ samāptam iti || || 2000 ||

• 2 folios which begin: oṃ namaḥ śivāya || bhūtaśuddhi |

• 2 more prakīrṇapattre.

• 68 folios of Kubjikāmata. Extant folios: 2-48, 50-54, 56-59, 64, 65, 74, 75, x, x, x, x, 77, 76, 81, 83. One folio numbered 20, which might belong to one of the following manuscript parts, is inserted after 64

• 6 folios with an unidentified text, numbered 27, x, 25, 24, 23, 22. Excerpt: iti tridhā saṃpūjya naivedyaṃ datvā ācamanañ ca dhūpadīpādikañ ca mūlena mudrātrayaṃ pradarśya jayaṃ kuryāt | (fol. 27r1).

• 4 prakīrṇapattrāṇi, one of them containing a depiction of cakras.

• 20 folios of an unidentified tantric text

• 9 folios (59, 55, 21, x, x, x, 66, 67, 49) of another Kubjikāmata manuscript.

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Excerpts

Beginning

oṃ namo mahābhairavāya ||
pañcāśadvarṇṇarūpasthaṃ vyāpakaṃ yac ya yāmalaṃ |
kulākulatayā kṛtvā pratyakṣaṃ taṃ namāmy ahaṃ || ||
śṛṅgāṭoṃ(!) golakānte sphuradamalamalaṃ pīṭhadevy(!)oghayuktaṃ
vidyudratnaprabhāsaṃ pralayaśikhiśikhākārarūpaṃ vicitraṃ |
tanmadhye kubjikākhyyā sakalaguṇayuktā jñānasaṃgho..rantī
śrīmitrotsaṅgasaṃsthā dadatu '(!)vinayināṃ bhuktimu(ktyū)rmmighūrmmīṃ(!) || ||
śrīdevy uvāca || ||
viśeṣāgamavettā ca yogyo hi paścime gṛhe |
bhavantīha kathaṃ nā(tha) kaulikaḥ kulanandanaḥ || ||
śrībhairava uvāca ||
akulaṃ ca kulaṃ kaulaṃ kulāṣṭakaṃ mataḥ punaḥ |
kulaṣaṭkaṃ tathā cānyaṃ yo jānāti sa kaulikaḥ || ||
śrīdevy uvāca ||
brūhi me jagatāṃ nātha kulajaṃ ratnapañcakaṃ |
yaṃ jñātvā tu mahāyogī bhuktir mu°

Microfilm Details

Reel No. C 6/10

Date of Filming 14-11-1975

Used Copy Berlin

Type of Film negative

Catalogued by AM

Date 23-11-2012