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

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