A 166-1 Brahmayāmala

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 166/1
Title: Brahmayāmala
Dimensions: 32.5 x 16.5 cm x 440 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Stotra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/143
Remarks:

Reel No. A 166-1 Inventory No. 12814

Title Brahmayāmala

Subject Śaivatantra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material Nepali paper

State complete

Size 16.5 x 33.0 cm

Folios 139+2

Lines per Folio 10–11

Foliation figures in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation śrībra. and in the lower right-hand margin under the abbreviation yāmaḥ on the verso

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 1/143

Manuscript Features

The fols. 1v and 1r are in reverse order.

Excerpts

Beginning

❖ śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || ||

yat tattvaṃ maṃtragarbhaṃ sakalaśivamayaṃ hetunirvāṇabimbaṃ

dūtīnā padmaṣaṇḍe samasu(2)khavilasal liṇgakāyaṃ vibharttiḥ (!) ||

nānābhogādhivāsair vvividhanayapadaiḥ śaktir āvaddhaṃkāṇḍe (!)

tat tattvaṃ vi(3)śvagarbhaṃ bhavanagadalanaṃ bhairavaṃ vaḥ punātu || (fol. 1v1–3)

End

brahma(4)yāmalatatredaṃ (!) lakṣapādāṃdhikāṃ (!) gataṃ ||

śatako prajvalātaṃtrāt (!) sārāt sāratarottaraṃ ||

sthitaṃ dvādaśasāhasraṃ paṃcasutrājvalaṃ (!) sataṃ

(5) mayā te kathitaṃ bhadre bhadrasiddhipradāyakaṃ ||     || (fol. 439v3–5)

Colophon

iti bhairavasrotasi mahātaṃtre vidyāpīṭhe brahmayāmale navākṣaravidhā(6)ne dvādaśasāhasrake ekottaraśatimaḥ (!) paṭalaḥ samāptam (!) ||     || śubham || ❁ || ❁ || (fol. 439v5–6)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 166/1

Date of Filming 17-10-1971

Exposures 458

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks three exposures of fols. 1v and 2v and two exposures of fol. 9v–10r, 54v–55r

Catalogued by MS

Date 27-02-2007

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