A 180-2 Devīrahasya

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 180/2
Title: Devīrahasya
Dimensions: 40 x 14 cm x 90 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Stotra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 4/1515
Remarks:

Reel No. A 180-2 Inventory No. 18502

Title Devīrahasya

Subject Śaivatantra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material Nepali paper

State complete

Size 40.0 x 14.0 cm

Folios 90

Lines per Folio 13–15

Foliation figures in the middle of the right hand margin on the verso, which runs up to the fol. 53, then original foliation is lost and from the 54 onwards the foliation is reconstructed and is given in the extreme lower right margin on the verso; again from 86 onwards the foliation seems to be original with figures in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation ru. yā and in the lower right-hand margin on the verso, which runs up to the very end of the text.

Date of Copying SAM 1014

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 4/1515

Manuscript Features

The two folio numbers 82 and 83 is mentioned in one folio which does not affect the text to run continuously.

Excerpts

Beginning

śrīgurugaṇeśāya namaḥ ||     ||

śrībhairava uvā (!) ||

adhunā devi vakṣyāmi rahasyaṃ paramādbhutaṃ || 

yatra sarveṣu taṃtreṣu yāmalādiṣu bhāṣitam || 1 || 

parādevi rahasyākhyaṃ taṃtramaṃtroccavigraham || 

tatvaśrīṣoḍaśākṣaryyāḥ (!) sarvvasvaṃ mama pārvvati || 

aprakāśyamahātavyaṃ (!) phalamoccaphalapradam (!) || 

bhogāpavargadaṃ loke sādhakānāṃ sukhāvaham || 3 || (fol. 1v1–2)

End

sarvathā rakṣanīsmi kim anyut (!) kathayāmi te ||

idaṃ devirahasyākhyaṃ (!) taṃtrarājaṃ maheśvari || 32 || 

sarvasiddhimayaṃ gopyaṃ gopaniyaṃ (!) maheśvari || 

adātavyam abhaktebhyo durātmebhyo (!) maheśvari || 33 ||

svaputrebhyo nyasiṣyebhyo (!) na deyaṃ tu mumukṣubhiḥ || 

idaṃ hi sāraṃ taṃtrāṇāṃ tatvaṃ sarvasvam uttam (!) || 34 ||

rahasyaṃ devi durgāyā gopanīyaṃ svayonivat || 35 || (fol. 90v10–12)

Colophon

iti śrīrudrajāmalataṃtre (!) śrīdevirahasye (!) aṣṭapañcāsattamaḥ paṭalaḥ || 58 ||  ||   ||

samāptoyaṃ devispārahaśyābhidhas (!) taṃtraparamārthadipikās (!) taṃtrarājeś (!) ceti śivaṃ samvat 1014 miti māghavadi 9 roja 5 sa śaṃpūrṇa yāṅā julo || śubham ||  śrīiṭācheyā śrīharakumārarājasya putra śrīaśvinīkumāra rājaupādhyāna ||

thva saṃphuali coyāva dayekā julo ||     || (fol. 90v12–14)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 180/2

Date of Filming 26-10-1971

Exposures 95

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks Fols. 39 has been filmed twice once between 37 and 38 and next in its proper place; two exposures of fols. 70v–71r

Catalogued by BK

Date 26-10-2007

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