A 207-1 Kulārṇavatantra

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 207/1
Title: Kulārṇavatantra
Dimensions: 23.5 x 9 cm x 171 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Stotra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/257
Remarks:

Reel No. A 207-1 Inventory No. 36677

Title Kulārṇavatantra

Subject Śaivatantra

Language Sanskrit

Reference BSP, 4.2, p. 81, no. 178 (1/257)

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State complete

Size 23.5 x 9.0 cm

Folios 171

Lines per Folio 6

Foliation There are figures in the middle of both margins on the verso of fols. 1–15; otherwise the figures occur only in the middle of the right margin.

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 1/257

Manuscript Features

The text was copied in three hands fols. 1–110r are in one hand, fols. 110v–123v and 146r–171v in a second, and fols. 124r–145v in a third.

Starting with the change of hands at fol. 146r, there are two different folio numbers on the verso, the top one being correct.

Excerpts

Beginning

oṃ namaḥ śrīgurave ||

śrīparadevatāyai namaḥ ||

guruṃ gaṇapatiṃ durggāṃ vaṭukaṃ śivam acyutaṃ ||

brahmāṇaṃ (2) girijāṃ lakṣmīṃ vāṇīṃ vande vibhūtaye ||

anādhārakhilādhāya (!) māyine gatamāyine ||

arūpāya (3) sarūpāya śivāya gurave namaḥ ||

parāprāsādamantrāya saccidānandacetase ||

agnisomasvarūpā(4)ya tryaṃvakāya namo namaḥ || (fol. 1v1–4)

End

sādhakānāṃ hitārthāya bhuktimuktiphalaiṣiṇāṃ

yas tūddhāmnāyamāhātmyaṃ (!) paṭhecchrīcakrasannidhau

bhaktyā (4) paramayā devi ya (!) śṛṇoti hi kolikaḥ (!)

vratadānatapas tīrthayajñadevārcanādiṣu

yat phalaṃ koṭiguṇitaṃ (5) labhate nātra saṃśayaḥ

tvat sannidhau ca nivasen nātrā kāryyā vicāraṇā (fol. 171v3–5)

Colophon

iti śrīkulārṇave mahārahasye sapā(6)dalakṣasāhasre paṃcamakhaṃḍe pārvatīsvarasaṃvāde nāmavāsanādikathanaṃ nāma saptadaśollāsaḥ ||

|| śubhaṃ || (fol. 171v5–6)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 207/1

Date of Filming 14-11-1971

Exposures 175

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks two exposures of fols. 120v–121r

Catalogued by MS

Date 18-04-2007

Bibliography