Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 176/5
Title: Mahākālasaṃhitā
Dimensions: 30 x 13.5 cm x 89 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Tantra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/278
Remarks: Guhyakālīkhaṇḍa; A 175/4

Reel No. A 176-5 Inventory No. 32651

Reel No.: A 176/5

Title Mahākālasaṃhitā

Subject Śaivatantra

Language Sanskrit

Reference SSP p. 111b, no. 4125

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material paper

State incomplete, Scattered and missing fols. 42r–46r

Size 30.0 x 13.5 cm

Folios 89

Lines per Folio 13

Foliation figures in the middle right-hand margin of the verso

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 1/278

Manuscript Features

Scattered folios on MS starts with foliation 1–3 and appears text in another hand.

expos. 7–45 are not foliated

On the exp. 45 foliation starts and available up to the fol. 52v

Excerpts

Beginning

ḥ śrīkāmakalākālyai namaḥ

tāram aidha(!) upālakṣmī kālīkāmarūṣaḥ kramāt |

yoginīṃ pramadāṃ caiva śākinīm aṃkuśaṃ tathā ||

prāsādakṣetrapālau ca pāśabhūtau samuddharet |

tato gni strī saptadaśī marīci samupāsitā ||

karddamo ʼsya ṛṣiḥ prokto bṛhatīcchanda īṣyate |

devī kāmakalākālī hrīṃ śakti (!) huṃ ca kīlakaṃ || 1 || (fol. 1r1–3)

End

nimittaṃ rāhusaṃyogas tasmin vṛtte kathaṃ sa ca |

tad avacchinnakaalena proktā pūjau(!)parāgikī(!) ||

smārttānāṃ nādhikāro sti pūjāyāṃ śrāddham antarā |

grahe(!) tu tad akurvvāṇo niraye paripacyate ||

ity ukta(!) pūjane devi śāradīyauparāgike(!) |

īdṛśy eva vāsantī pūjākāryyā madhau site ||  (!) (fol. 52v4–7)

Colophon

|| iti mahākālasaṃhitāyāṃ śāradīpūjāvidhi++++++ paṭalaḥ ||     || (fol. 52v7–8)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 176/5

Date of Filming 24-10-1971

Exposures 96

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks two exposures of fols. 16v–17r, 29v–30r

Catalogued by MS

Date 18-01-2008

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