A 173-4 Merutantra
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Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: A 173/4
Title: Merutantra
Dimensions: 33 x 10.5 cm x 75 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Stotra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/218
Remarks:
Reel No. A 173-4 Inventory No. 38329
Title Merutantra
Subject Śaivatantra
Language Sanskrit
Reference SSP p. 121, no. 4464
Manuscript Details
Script Newari
Material paper
State incomplete; available folios: 1–43 (the first foliation) and 2–33 (the second foliation)
Size 33.0 x 10.5 cm
Folios 75
Lines per Folio 8–9
Foliation Figures in the middle right-hand margin on the verso. After fol. 43 a new foliation starts giving the number 2 and runs upto the end. Although fol. 1 is not mentioned in new foliation, text is continuous.
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 1/218
Manuscript Features
The text is not complete but a sub colophon is added at the end of the MS.
Excerpts
Beginning
❖ śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ||
sarasvatyai namaḥ ||
śrīgurūbhyo namaḥ ||
śrīiṣṭadevatāyai namaḥ ||
yayāsatsadivābhāti na ca bhāti kadāpi sat |
yasmin jñāte na sā bhāti tasyai tasmai namo namaḥ || 1 ||
jalaṃdhareṇa vijite surāsuranare khile |
sūkṣmarūpeṇa te sarvve, maheśaṃ śaraṇaṃ gatāḥ || 2 ||
divyāṇy abdasahasrāṇI, samādhisthaṃ vilokaya taṃ ||
prārthitā (!) cārcitā (!) tais tu, vāmadakṣiṇamārgibhiḥ || 3 || (fol. 1v1–3)
End
tāni nānāvidhāni syur mukuṭādiprabhedataḥ |
strīpuṃprabhedataś cāpi, vijñeyāni vicakṣaṇaiḥ ||75 ||
cūrṇaṃ ghṛṣṭaṃ dhūmasāraḥ, samarddaḥ prāṇisaṃbhavaḥ |
gaṃdhaḥ paṃcavidho jñeyo, modadas svargavāsināṃ || 76 ||
praśastagaṃdhayuktānāṃ, yatra cūrṇāni yāni ca |
tā -/// (fol. 33v8–9)
Sub-colophon
[[iti mahāmāyāmahākālānumate śivapraṇīte merutaṃtre āhnikaprakāśaḥ samāptaḥ || ||]] (fol. 33v10)
Microfilm Details
Reel No. A 173/4
Date of Filming 22-10-1971
Exposures 80
Used Copy Kathmandu
Type of Film positive
Remarks two exposures of fols. 40v–41r, 42v–43r
Catalogued by MS
Date 18-07-2007
Bibliography