A 472-1 Kārtavīryārjunakavaca

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 472/1
Title: Kārtavīryārjunakavaca
Dimensions: 19 x 10 cm x 17 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Stotra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 2/200
Remarks:

Reel No. A 472/1

Inventory No. 25539

Title [Kārtavīryakavaca]

Remarks ascribed to the Uḍḍāmaratantra

Author

Subject Stotra

Language Sanskrit

Reference SSP, p. 19a, no. 945

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State complete

Size 19.0 x 10.0 cm

Binding Hole

Folios 17

Lines per Folio 9

Foliation figures on the verso, in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation kā. vī. and in the lower right-hand margin

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 2/200

Manuscript Features

The colophon is incomplete, the last folio having seemingly gone missing.

Excerpts

Beginning

oṃ śrīgaṇeśāya nama[ḥ] ||    ||

oṃ asya śrīkar(!)ttavīryyārjunakavacamaṃtrasya dattātreya-ṛṣir anuṣṭupchaṃdaḥ śrīkārttavīryyārjuno devatā āṃ bījaṃ krīṃ śaktir[[⟨r⟩ viśucikādisakalarogopaśānti¬pūrvakadīrghāyurārogyābhivṛddhyarthaṃ]] yathoktaphalaprāptaye śrīkārttavīryaprītaye pāṭhe viniyogaḥ oṃ dattātreya-ṛṣaye namaḥ sirasi oṃ anuṣṭupchaṃdase namo mukhe śrīkārttavīryā[r]juno devatāyai namo hṛdaye āṃ bījāya namo guhye
… dhyānaṃ

avyāt sarvabhayāt prabhākaranibhaḥ pradyotano dyotitaḥ
svarṇaśrakparivītakaṃ dharadharo raktāṃśukoṣṇīṣavān
nānākalpavibhūṣitaḥ karasahasrārddhāttavāṇāśano
vāṇāñ cārddhasahasrā(!)bāhur aniśaṃ bhūvallabhonaprabhūḥ 1 (fols. 1v1–2r6)

End

tasmāt sarvvaprayatnena kavacaṃ dhārayet sudhi(!)
dhāraṇa(!)t kavaca(!) cāsya manobhīṣṭam avāpnuyāt 63

kārttavīryyakhaladvai(!)ṣī kṛtavīryyasuto valī
sahasrabāhuśatrughno raktavāsādhanurddhara[ḥ] 64

raktagaṃdho raktamālyo †rājāsmarttur† abhīṣṭada[ḥ]
dvādaśe(!)tāni nāmāni kārttavīryasya yaḥ paṭhet 65

saṃpada[s] tasya jāyyaṃte janā[s] tasya vase sadā 66 (fol. 17v1–7)

Colophon

iti śrī-uḍāmareśvara⟪saṃvāde⟫taṃtre umā-/// (fol. 17v6)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 472/1

Date of Filming 03-01-1973

Exposures 20

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks

Catalogued by RR

Date 22-12-2008