A 978-5 Kālikāstotra

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 978/5
Title: Kālikāstotra
Dimensions: 19.8 x 7.8 cm x 5 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Stotra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 2/143
Remarks:

Reel No. A 978-5 Inventory No. 29420

Title Kālikāstotra

Author Kālidāsa

Subject Stotra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari, Utkīrṇākṣara

Material Nepali paper

State complete

Size 19.8 x 7.8 cm

Folios 5

Lines per Folio 3

Foliation figures in the right margin of the verso under the word rāmaḥ

Illustrations

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 2/143

Manuscript Features

The spaces where the akṣaras are written are remained blank and the remaining parts of the folios are painted with black ink. On the every side of the folios there are lines.

On the cover pages there are paintings of conch, fish, sun, moon and kalaśa (jar). On 1v and 5v there are two artistic flowers.

Excerpts

Beginning

śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || ||

ullasad danujavṛndakhedinī

bhūriduḥkhabhavabhītibhedinī ||

kaṇṭhalambitakapālamālikā

maṃgalaṃ mama karotu kālikā || 1 ||

śoṇitārdragajacarmmavāsinī

mattabhairavamahāṭṭahāsinī ||

daityabāhukṛtakāś ca śālikā

maṃgalaṃ mama karotu kālikā || 2 || (fol. 1v1–2v2)

End

rājase sakalasargasajjane

sātvikī ca jagatām sulakṣaṇe ||

nāmasiṃhajagatāṃ surolikā

maṃgalaṃ || 7 ||

bhaktinamramuniyakṣadevatā-

siddhakinnarasamūhasevitā ||

śuṃbhadaityamakarandarolikā

maṃgalaṃ || 8 || (fol. 4r2–4v3)

Colophon

iti śrīkālidāsaviracitaṃ kālikāstotraṃ || śubhaṃ (fol. 4v3–5v3)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 978/5

Date of Filming 23-01-1985

Exposures 4

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by RT

Date 30-12-2004

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