A 184-16 Gāyatrīpaṭala

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 184/16
Title: Gāyatrīpaṭala
Dimensions: 28 x 12 cm x 21 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Tantra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 3/195
Remarks:

Reel No. A 184-16 Inventory No. 58112

Title Gāyatrīpaṭala

Remarks assigned to the Rudrayāmalatantra

Subject Śaivatantra

Language Sanskrit

Reference SSP p.35a, no. 1575 (Rudrayāmalaṃ draṣṭavyam); =SSP p. 130b, no. 4832

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material paper

State incomplete, damaged right-hand margin of the folios.

Size 28.0 x 12.0 cm

Folios 11

Lines per Folio 8-9

Foliation none

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 3/195

Manuscript Features

Text is filmed in descending order; text begins from exp. 23.

MS contains the text of the Gāyatrīpaddhati-paṭala is assigned to the Rudrayāmalatatra. Middle of the text somewhere seems the text also contains the gurūpūjā-ajapājapasamarpaṇa a.k.a nityakarma with gāyatrīkavaca, which is a part of the Gayatrīpaṭala.

Excerpts

Beginning

-n madhye sarvvadevājñānādhipataye gurave ekasahasraṃ nivedayāmi 2 || oṃ brahmaraṃdhracakre sahasradalakamale (2) vidyutkoṭisahasrābhakarṇikāyāṃ tanmadhye haṃsaḥ jīvātmaparamātmanor aikyaṃ vidhāya paramātmanai (!) mo(3)kṣādhipataye ekasahasraṃ nivedayāmi 2 ||  ity evaṃ ajapājapaṃ gurave samarpya daṇḍavat praṇamya tadājñā(4)m ādāya bahir gatvā varāṇśramocitaṃ śaucam ādāya (exp. 23,1–4)

End

ruruḥ saṃgrāmataḥ pātu caṇḍe bha///(7)

karālovyāt smaśāne, māṃ saṃhāro vyāt samudrataḥ || 

vibhīṣaṇaḥ pātu durbhikṣāt kā///(8)pāśataḥ ||

unmattaḥ pātu māṃ caurād vikarālo viparttitāḥ (!) ||

ete śaktitaḥ pāntu vasū///-(exp. 2t, 6–8)

«Sub-colophon:»

ga khaṇḍe nirūpaṇe śrīgāyatrīrahasyatattvasāre gāyatrīparddhatīpaṭalaḥ (!) (exp. 6b1)

iti śrīrudrayāmalatantre gāyatrīrahasya (!) gāyat[rikavaca]///ḥ (exp. 3b5)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 184/16

Date of Filming 31-10-1971

Exposures 24

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by MS

Date 24-08-2007

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