A 472-19 Kārtavīryārjunastotra

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 472/19
Title: Kārtavīryārjunastotra
Dimensions: x cm x 17 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Stotra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 3/460
Remarks:

Reel No. A 472-19 Inventory No. 25578

Title Kārtavīryārjunastotra

Remarks ascribed to the Uḍḍāmaratantra

Subject Stotra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State complete

Size 0 x 0 cm

Folios 17

Lines per Folio 8

Foliation figures on the verso, in the upper left-hand margin under the word śrīḥ and in the lower right-hand margin under the form of the word rāma (i.e. rāma, rāmau, rāmāḥ etc.)(in some places, under the word śāradā).

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 3/460

Manuscript Features

There are impresses of the seal of Chandra Shumshere dated 1970 [VS] on the front and back cover-leaves.

Excerpts

Beginning

śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || ❁ ||

ācamya prāṇān āyamya pūrvāsaṃkalpam uktā(!) evaṃ guṇaviśeṣaṇaviśiṣṭhāyāṃ puṇyatithau mama śrīkārttavīryaprasādapūrvakaśatrunāśadvārā śatrukṛtopadravopaśamanapūrvakābhimatārthasiddhyarthaṃ kārtavīryaviṃśatyakṣarātmakamaṃtrasya gāyatryāś cāṣṭottaraśatavāraṃ japapūrvakaṃ śrīkārtavīryārjunakavacastotrāṣṭottaraśatanāmnāṃ ca pātham ahaṃ kariṣye ||

…

atha dhyānam

avyāt sarvabhayāt prabhākaranibhaḥ pradyotana(!) dyotanaḥ

svarṇasrakparivītakaṃdharadharo raktāṃśukoṣṇīṣavān ||

nānākalpavibhūṣitaḥ karasahasrārddhāttavāṇāsano

vāṇāṃtārddhasahasrabāhur aniśaṃ bhūvallabho naḥ prabhuḥ || 1 || (fols. 1v1–5 and 2v8–3r3)

End

[[ānayaty āśu durasthaṃ kṣemalābhayutaṃ śriyaṃ [[3]] |

kārtavīryamahābāho sarvaśatrunivarhaṇa |

sarvatra sarvadā tiṣṭha caurān nāśaya pāhi māṃ [[4]] |

sahasrabāhuṃ saśaraṃ sacāpaṃ

raktāṃbaraṃ raktakirīṭakuṃḍalaṃ |

caurādiduṣṭabhayanāśanam iṣṭadattaṃ

dhyāyen mahā hai .. .. kārttavīryam || 5 || ]]

sahasrāvartanād devi śudrādyair na śrutaṃ yadi ||

akhilaṃ sādhayen maṃtrī †tvanāyāsan† na saṃśayaḥ || 67 ||    || (fol. 17r6–7)

Sub-colophon

[[iti śrīuḍḍāmala(!)taṃtre kārtavīryasya kavacaṃ samāptam ||]] (fol. 17r4)

Colophon

ity uḍḍāmarataṃtre umāmaheśvarasaṃvāde kārtavīryārjunastotram || saṃpūrṇam śubham (fol. 17r7–8)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 472/19

Date of Filming 03-01-1973

Exposures 20

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by RK

Date 29-10-2009

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