A 482-4 Durgāsaptaśatī

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 482/4
Title: Devīmāhātmya
Dimensions: 22.5 x 11 cm x 72 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Stotra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 4/2441
Remarks: as Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa; I

Reel No. A 482/04

Inventory No. 17905

Title Durgāsaptaśatī

Remarks the text is ascribed to the Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa

Author

Subject Stotra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State complete

Size 22.5 x 11.0 cm

Binding Hole(s)

Folios 72

Lines per Folio 7

Foliation figures on the verso, in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation durgā and in the lower right-hand margin under the word rāmaḥ

Scribe

Date of Copying

Place of Copying

King

Donor

Owner/Deliverer

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 4/2441

Manuscript Features

There are pictures of gods on fols: first hard-cover, first inner cover, 1r, 1v, 10r, 19v, 26r, 30r, 35r, 43v, 45v, 48r, 54v, 58r, 61r, 66v, 70v, last inner cover and last hard-cover.

Excerpts

Beginning

svasti śrīgurugaṇeśāya namaḥ ||

śrīsarasvatyai namaḥ ||

oṃ namas caṇḍikāyai ||

oṃ hrīṃ hrīṃ klīṃ krauṃ oṃ aiṃ kṣobhaya mohaya kīlaya kīlaya ||

mārkaṃḍeya uvāca || ||

yad guhyaṃ paramaṃ loke sarvarakṣākaraṃ nṛṇāṃ ||

yan na kasyacid ākhyātaṃ tan me brūhi pitāmaha || 1 || (fol. 1v1–6)

End

mārkaṃḍeya uvāca || 26 ||

iti datvā tayor devī yathābhilaṣitaṃ varaṃ ||

babhūvāṃta[r]hitā sadyo bhaktyā nābhyāṃ mabhiṣṭutā (!) || 27 ||

evaṃ devyā varaṃ labdhvā suratha[ḥ] kṣatriyarṣabhaḥ ||

sūryāj janma samāsādya⟨ḥ⟩ sāvarṇir bhavitā manuḥ || 28 || (fol. 72r5–v1)

Colophon

iti mārkaṃḍeyapurāṇe sāvarṇikamanvantare devīmahātmye surathavarapradānaṃ nāma trayodaśodhyāyaḥ || 13 || ❖ || (fol. 72v1–3)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 482/04

Date of Filming 19-02-1973

Exposures 83

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks

Catalogued by RT

Date 02-04-2012

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