A 124-13 Vajrasattva

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 124/13
Title: Vajrasattva
Dimensions: 18.3 x 6.4 cm x 4 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Bauddha
Date:
Acc No.: 4/1494
Remarks: same as A 861/8

Reel No. A 124-13

Title Vajrasattvakavaca

Subject Bauddha Stotra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material Paper

State complete

Size 18.0 x 6.5 cm

Folios 4

Lines per Folio 5

Foliation Figures on the verso, in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation vajra and in the middle of the right-hand margin.

Left-hand foliation starts with 1 and right-hand foliation starts with 5.

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 4/1494

Manuscript Features

The MS contains many scribal errors.

The scribe leaves blank space on the middle of fol. 1v for picture, but there is no picture.

Excerpts

Beginning

❖ oṃ namaḥ śrīvajrastvāya || ||

vajrasatvovācaḥ ||

nilañjananilākālaṃ śunyaśunyamahāśunyanirārambanirākāramamūrūtitatvan nahi pṛthivī || || mama vajraśarīraikaśiroṣṇīṣasvargavayaṃ pātāle pādasthāpanaṃ mudaran tu matyamaṇḍalaṃ || || (fols. 1v1–2r1)

End

pūrvvadvāre yamāntakaḥ dakṣiṇadvāre prajñāntakaḥ || paścimadvare padmāntakaḥ uttaradvāre vighnāntakaḥ || || īśānakoṇe acala || agne kone tarjjirājaḥ naiṛtyastha nīladaṇḍaḥ vāyūvya ca mahāvala || || ete tathagatavyāptadigvidisaṃ saṃsthito bhavantu vatu pṛthivīmaṇḍalaṃ bhavantuḥ vajra satva kacaḥ || ❖ || (fol. 4r5–v5)

Colophon

iti śrī śrī śrī vajrasatvakayasya tathāgatavyāptaṃ śatakaṃ parisamāptaḥ || ❖ || śubhamaṅgalaṃ bhavantuḥ || ❁ || (fol. 4v4–5)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 124/13

Exposures 7

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by RT

Date 02-04-2009