A 980-28 Deśikastotra

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Filmed in: A 980/28
Title: Deśikastotra
Dimensions: x cm x folios
Material: paper?
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Reel No. A 980-28 MTM Inventory No.: New

Title Deśikastotra

Remarks The text is ascribed to the Akāśabhairavakalpa.

Subject Stotra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material Indian paper, loose

State incomplete, fol. 5 is missing.

Size 11.3 x 7.2 cm

Folios 5

Lines per Folio 9

Foliation figures on the verso, in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation de. and in the lower right-hand margin undrer the word rāma

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 5/6361

Manuscript Features

Before fol. 1v in exp. 3t there is an extra page in which is written fol. no. 2 and a small portion of the text from some other stotra book.

Excerpts

Beginning

śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || ||

śrīśiva uvāca ||

atha devi mahāguhyaṃ śṛṇu sarvārthasādhakaṃ ||

śāṃtidaṃ deśikastotraṃ sārabhūtaṃ vadāmi te || 1 ||

deśikastotramaṃtrasya paramātmā ṛṣiḥ smṛtaḥ ||

chaṃdas tu devī gāyatrī devatādeśikottamaḥ || 2 || (fol. 1v1–5, exp. 3t)

End

yo japet pratyahaṃ bhaktyā suprasanno bhaved guruḥ ||

svātmajñānaṃ ca labhate sarvaśatrujayaṃ tataḥ || 39 ||

maṃtrāṇāṃ siddhibhedaṃ ca bhogaṃ yogaṃ japaṃ tathā ||

āyur ārogyasiddhiṃ ca saubhāgyaṃ labhate dhruvaṃ || ❖ || (fol. 4v6–9, exp. 6t)

Colophon

ity ākāśabhairavakalpe deśikastotraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ || || śivaṃ bhavatu || (fol. 4v9–10, exp. 6t)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 980/28a

Date of Filming 07-02-1985

Exposures 8

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by RT

Date 13-07-2006

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