B 136-16 Mantracandrikā

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 136/16
Title: Mantracandrikā
Dimensions: 34.5 x 15.5 cm x 233 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Mantra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 4/996
Remarks:

Reel No. B 136/16

Inventory No. 34986

Title Mantracandrikā

Remarks

Author

Subject Śaivatantra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State incomplete; missing folio: 93

Size 34.5 x 15.5 cm

Binding Hole

Folios 232

Lines per Folio 11

Foliation figures in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation maṃtracaṃ. (somewhere maṃ. caṃ, maṃ. traṃ.) and in the lower right-hand margin guruḥ on the verso

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 4/996

Manuscript Features

Excerpts

Beginning

śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ

natvā gurupadāmbhojaṃ gaṇeśaṃ śāradāṃ śivāṃ
śivaṃ sūryyaṃ hṛṣīkeśaṃ tanyate maṃtracaṃdrikāṃ 1

graṃthagraṃthāntarād vākyān nānārthaṃ pratibudhya ca
saukaryārthaṃ ca saṃkṣepāt sārasāraṃ pratanyate 2

vande ham sakalāṃ sveṣṭāṃ paramātmasvarūpiṇīṃ
yasyāḥ kaṭākṣamātreṇa sādhakaḥ kiṃ na sādhayet 3 (fol. 1v1–3)

End

śāṃtidaṃ sutadaṃ strīṇāṃ bhūtapretabhayāpahaṃ
garbharakṣākaraṃ śuddhaṃ param asyān na vidyate

mustā mothaṃ niśā haridrāḥ vahniś citrakamūlaṃ yaṣṭi(!) yaṣṭimadhuḥ rohiṇī kaṭukī. phalatrayaṃ harro(!) varaḍā(!) amalā(!) prasthaparimitaṃ ghṛtaṃ samyak pācayet
maṃtrasādhitam uktaphaladaṃ iti paṃcagavyam (fol. 233r8–10)

Colophon

iti śrīmaṃtracaṃdrikāyāṃ yaṃtrakaraṇādhikāraḥ saptaviṃśas taraṃgaḥ samāptaḥ 27 śūbham bhūyāt ❁ (fol. 233r10–11)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 136/16

Date of Filming 22-10-1971

Exposures 251

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks two exposures of fols. 2v–3r, 5v–6r, 50v–51r, 63v–64r, 67v–68r, 74v–75r, 83v–84r, 91v–92r, 122v–123r, 125v–126r, 135v–136r, 138v–139r, 143v–144r, 159v–161r and 172v–173r

Catalogued by MS

Date 10-12-2007