A 186-11 Vārāhītantra

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Filmed in: A 186/11
Title: Vārāhītantra
Dimensions: 30.5 x 12.5 cm x 149 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Tantra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 5/2004
Remarks:


Reel No. A 186-11 Inventory No. 85277

Title Vārāhītantra(pūrvakhaṇḍa)

Subject Śaivatantra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material Nepali paper

State incomplete

Size 30.5 x 12.5 cm

Folios 149

Lines per Folio 11

Foliation figures on the verso, in the upper left-hand margin under the marginal title vā.hī and in the lower right-hand margin under the word rāmaḥ

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 5/2004

Manuscript Features

Scribe leaves fol. 24r blank.

Excerpts

Beginning

oṃ namaḥ śrīsuṃdarīkālikāvārāhīdevyai namaḥ || ||

kāmarūpe mahāpīṭḥe ruṃḍamuṇḍoparisthite ||

nānā gaṇasamākīrṇe vicitrayoginīganā[[ḥ]] (!) ||

ya⟪⟨syā⟫thāyogyaṃ samādāya vāhanaṃ ca pṛthak pṛthak ||

tanmadhya(!) saṃsthito vīraḥ pracaṇḍaḥ sūkerāsa(!)naḥ ||

bhāvayuktā namaskṛtya papraccha guhyakālikā ||

yutkā(!)mṛtaṃ kathaṃ nātha sarvatra śreṣṭha[[ḥ]] kiṃ bhavet || (!)

kautukaṃ ca mayāścvryaṃ apavitraṃ pavitrakaṃ ||

vārāhīsaṃjñayā taṃtraṃ dhyānāgamaṃ kathaṃ prabho || (fol. 1v1–3)

End

bhaktebhyo varade devi sundarī(!) tvāṃ namo stu te ||

mahiṣachāgakukuṭāmeṣādinaraghāṭakāḥ || (!)

balidānena saṃtuṣṭā saṃgrāme jayadāya(!)nī ||

sundarī kālikādevi(!) vārāhī varadāyinī ||

varadātrī mahākāli(!) mahiṣāsuraghātinī ||

kaumārī (!) pūjayitvā ca aṣṭottaraśataṃ priye ||

pūjayitvā vidhānena devi †saṃṣam† āpnuyāt || (fol. 149v3–5)

Colophon

iti śrīvārāhitaṃtre dakṣiṇāmnāyanirvvāṇapade pūjāvidhi(!) nāma ṣaḍtriṃśa(!) paṭalaḥ || 36 ||

yadakṣarapadabhraṣṭaṃ mātrāhīnaṃ ca yad bhavet ||

tat sarvaṃ kṣamyatāṃ devi prasīda parameśvarī (!)||

vārāhītaṃtrapūrvakhaṇḍa(!) || || || ❁ ||  ❁ ||  ❁ || (fol. 149v5–6)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 186/11

Date of Filming 31-10-1971

Exposures 158

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks two exposures of fols. 9v–10r, 31v–32r, 80v–82r, 97v–98r, 141v–142r

Catalogued by MS

Date 08-05-2008

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