Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 175/2
Title: Mahākālasaṃhitā
Dimensions: 32 x 13 cm x 107 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Tantra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/110
Remarks:

Reel No. A 175-2

Inventory No.: 32699

Title Mahākālasaṃhitā

Author Ādinātha

Subject Śaivatantra

Language Sanskrit

Reference SSP p.111b, no.4125

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State complete

Size 32.0 x 13.0 cm

Folios 107

Lines per Folio 11

Foliation figures in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation ma. saṃ. and in the lower right-hand margin under the abbreviation rāmaḥ on the verso

Illustrations beautiful pictures in wooden cover

Date of Copying SAM (VS) 1843

Place of Copying Bhaktapur

Donor Adhīrājakumāra Bahādura sāha

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 1/110

Manuscript Features

Excerpts

Beginning

❖ śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ||

śrīparadevatāyai namaḥ ||

śrīdevy uvāca ||

parāpara pareśāna, śaśāṃkakṛtaśekhara |

yogādhiyogin sarvvajña, sarvvabhūtadayāpara ||

tvatttaḥ śrutā mayā mantrāḥ sarvvāgamasu(!) gopitāḥ ||

vidhivat pūjanaṃ cāpi, nānāvaraṇakakramaiḥ ||

tārā ca cchinnamastā ca, tathā tripurasundarī |

bālā ca bagalā cāpi, tripurābhairavī tathā || (fol. 1v1–3)

End

sahasranāmastotraś ca, tasya gadyam anuttamam |

pūjākāle nyāsādikaṃ, sarvvan nigaditaṃ tvayi ||

tava snehena deveśi, sarvvam etat prakāśitam |

atiguhyatamaṃ devi, na prakāśyaṅ kadācana ||

mā prakāśaya deveśi, śapathe tiṣṭha sarvvadā ||

adhunā kiṃ śravaṇechā(!) te, tan me kathaya pārvvati ||     || (fol. 107v4–6)

Colophon

iti śrīmad ādināthaviracitāyāṃ mahākālasaṃhitāyāṃ śrīkāmakalākālyāḥ prāṇāyutākṣarīmaṃtroddhāranāmadviśatādhikapaṃcapañcāśattamaḥ paṭalaḥ ||     || samāptaś cāyaṃ kāmakalākālyāḥ saparyyāparyāyaḥ ||     ||

śubham astu ||

saṃvat 1843 māghakṛṣṇadvādaśyāṃ tithau, bhaumavāsare svasti śrīgirirājacakracūḍāmaṇinaranārāyaṇetyādivividhavirūdāvalīvirājamānamānonnataśrīśrīśrīmanmahārājāʼdhirājakumāraśrīmadbahādurasāhasyājñayā likhitam idaṃ śrīmadbhaktapaṭṭane mahākālasaṃhitākhyaṃ nāma pustakaṃ || (fol. 107v6–11)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 175/2

Date of Filming 22-10-1971

Exposures 120

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks two exposures of fols. 6v–7r, 14v–15r, 20v–21r, 27v–28r, 30v–31r, 39v–40r, 42v–43r, 66v–67r and 107v

Catalogued by MS

Date 11-01-2007

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