A 170-11 Mahākālasaṃhitā

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 170/11
Title: Mahākālasaṃhitā
Dimensions: 50 x 20 cm x 13 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Tantra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 3/36
Remarks:

Reel No. A 170-11

Inventory No. 32671

Title Mahākālasaṃhitā

Author Ādinātha

Subject Tantra

Language Sanskrit

Reference SSP p. 111b, no. 4125

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State incomplete

Size 50.0 x 20.0 cm

Folios exps. 15

Lines per Folio 11–15

Foliation From the each chapter, a new foliation strats, but most of the chapters are not completed and regularly foliated. Somewhere, figures in the upper left-hand margin and lower right-hand margin on the verso. But, it is not regular.

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 3/36

Manuscript Features

The text is not completed, each chapters start with a new maṇṅalācaraṇa but no complete text is written.

Excerpts

Beginning

|| śrīmahākāla uvvāca(!) ||

atha debeśi(!) sāmānyaprayogān vyāharāmi te ||

cikīrṣayāpi yeṣāṃ hi rājyaṃ vidyā ca hastagā ||

catu(!)viṃśatibhis tās(!)tvāṃ pūrve madhye bhaved vidhi(!) ||

pūjāmaṃtraprayogas tu sa eva parikīrttitaḥ ||

āsāṃ dvādaśabhir deyo laghupūrvavidhiḥ priye ||

rājñām a(!)tat praśastaṃ hi na dvijasya kadācana || (fol. 1r1–2)

End

astrādhikyaṃ bhujādhikyād astrādhikyāt karālatāṃ ||

dattāsmi tubhyam it uktaṃ yat purā tad udīritaṃ ||

tiryaṃcāṃ(!) mukhakartṛtve kāraṇaṃ tu puroditāṃ(!) ||

varaṃ yugapadāsadya- /// (exp. 14b14–15)

Sub-colophon

ity ādināthaviracitāyāṃ mahākālasaṃhitāyāṃ sāmānyaviśeṣaprayogo nāma dviśatādhikaṣaṭcatvāriṃśa(!) paṭalaḥ ||     ||     || (fol. 4r15–16)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 170/11

Date of Filming 19-10-1971

Exposures 15

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by MS

Date 03-11-2007