A 971-8 Durgāstiraharīyamahātantra

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 971/8
Title: Durgāstiraharīyamahātantra
Dimensions: 29 x 9.8 cm x 86 folios
Material: paper?
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Tantra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 3/141
Remarks:

Reel No. A 971-8 Inventory No. 20086

Title Durgāstiraharīyamahātantra

Remarks Or is the title rather to be read as Durgāsthiraharīyamahātantra, as in the sub-colophon quoted under Excerpts?

Subject Śaivatantra

Language Sanskrit

Reference BSP, 4.1, p. 201, no. 439 (3/141)

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material Indian paper

State incomplete, available folios: 1–23, 25–31, 34–56, 58–67, 67–90; each folio has suffered burning on the upper right-hand corner of the recto (corresponding to the lower right-hand corner of the verso), with a modest loss of text on some few early folios.

Size 29.0 x 9.8 cm

Folios 87

Lines per Folio 9

Foliation figures in the middle of the right-hand margin on the verso; the number 67 has been assigned twice to two successive folios.

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 3/141

Manuscript Features

The text runs from the very beginning to the end of the 18th paṭala.

Compare to B 128/8.

The language of the text is very corrupt.

Excerpts

Beginning

❖ oṃ namaḥ śrīugracaṇḍāyai || ||

atha raṇayātrāpūjāvidhi likhyate || ||

tatrādau saṃkalpaṃ kuryyāt || oṃ adyehatyādide(2)śakālo smṛtāḥ virṣṇu 3 śrīvirṣṇuprajāpatikṣatre varttamānasaṃvatsare amukāyane amukaṃṛtau amukamāsā amukapakṣe (3) amukatithau yathā nakṣetravāraṇakara(‥)ṇakaranasamanvitāyāṃ amukagotrasya amukanāmabhūpasya svasainyarakṣārthaṃ para(4)sainyaparāyanārthaṃ ṣatriṃṣadadhikaśataṃ devatāpūjanaṃ raṇayātrām ahaṃ kalikhyat || (fol. 1v1–4)

End

adīkṣitā(7)ya no dadyā,t kucailāya durātmane ||

anyaśiṣyāya duṣṭāya, niṃdakāya kusāthināṃ ||

dīkṣitāya kulīnāya gu(8)rubhaktiratāya ca ||

śāṃtāya kulabhaktāya, śāṃtāya kulakāmine ||

idaṃ karma śive dadyā,t kulabhāgī bhavet naraḥ ||

(9) idaṃ rahasyaṃ paramaṃ, durgākavacam uttamaṃ |

guhyaṃ gopyatamaṃ gopyaṃ, gopanīyaṃ svayonivat || || (fol. 90v6–9)

Sub-colophon

iti śrīdurggāsti(10)raharīyamahātantre ugracaṇḍīkavacākhyānaṃ nāmāṣṭādaśapaṭalaḥ || 18 || (fol. 90v9–10)

Please quote the sub-colophon in which the title Durgāsthiraharīyamahātantra is mentioned, and give two or three more sub-colophons (e.g. from beginning, middle, end portion).

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 971/8

Date of Filming 23-12-1984

Exposures 90

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks two exposures of fols. 13v–14r

Catalogued by

Date 13-04-2007

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