A 179-5 Mahākālasaṃhitā

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Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 179/5
Title: Mahākālasaṃhitā
Dimensions: 54 x 17 cm x 300 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Tantra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/1652
Remarks:


Reel No. A 179-5 Inventory No. 32683

Title Mahākālasaṃhitā

Author ascribed to the Ādinātha

Subject Śaiva Tantra

Language Sanskrit

Reference SSP, p.111b, no. 4125

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material paper

State incomplete

Size 54.0 x 17.0 cm

Folios 300

Lines per Folio 11

Foliation figures in middle right-hand margin of the verso

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 1/1652

Manuscript Features

MS contains the 1-244 chapters paṭala runs 245th Paṭala.

damaged right -hand margin of the exps. 214-221, 243–248, 270b–276t

Scribe leaves pages blank or delete on the exposures 11v, 84r, 242b, 249–250.

fols. 12-33 contains the added [kūṭākṣaras] on the margin

Excerpts

Beginning

❖ oṃ śrīparadevatāyai namaḥ ||

guhyakālyās tu mantrāṇām aṣṭādaśabhidāḥ priye |

sarvvānāmeṣu gopyās te na prakāśyāṃ(!) kadācana ||

mantrāṇāṃ bhedatā(!) dhyānabhedāḥ syur vvividhās tathā ||

yantra bhedā api tathā vāhanānāṃ bhidās tathā ||

yo mantro yena cābhyastas taṃtrāmnāyaḥ prakīrttitaḥ |

brahmaṇā ca vaśiṣṭhena rāmena(!) ca tathā priye || (fol. 1v1–2)

End

śatadruścetyam īśāṃ prāk caitanyaṃ samudīritaṃ |

nadāya nama ityante savigraham imair(!) vrajet |

gaṃgā tato ʼnu yamunā tato ʼnu ca sarasvatī ||

godāvarī narmadā ca kāverī ca mahānadī |

etāṅentā nadī cāpi pratyekaṃ kulayoṣitaḥ |

parā- /// (exp. 319t10-11)

«Sub-colophon:»

ity ādināthaviracitāyāṃ mahākālasaṃhitāyāṃ śivāvaliprayogo nāma dviśatādhikacatuścatvāriṃśaḥ paṭalaḥ ||  (exp. 261b9-10)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 168/9

Date of Filming 25-10-1971

Exposures 320

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by MS

Date 04-06-2008

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