A 980-7(11) Kālīkavaca (3)

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 980/7
Title: Kālīkavaca
Dimensions: 27.6 x 12 cm x 109 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Stotra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 2/187
Remarks:

Reel No. A 980-7 MTM Inventory No.: 24433

Title Kālīkavaca

Remarks The text is ascribed to the Vīrabhadratantra.

Subject Stotra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material Nepali paper, loose

State complete

Size 27.6 x 12.0 cm

Folios 109

Lines per Folio 6

Foliation figures on the verso, in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation da. ka. and in the lower right-hand margin under the word guruḥ

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 2/187

Manuscript Features

The text is on fols. 37r–38v.

Excerpts

Beginning

vīrabhadra uvāca ||

kālikākavacasyāsya ṛṣir bhairava ucyate ||

chaṃdonuṣṭup samākhyātaṃ devī dakṣiṇakālikā || 1 ||

śakti dvāviṃśa vījāni (!) viniyogas tu rakṣaṇe || 1 || (fol. 37r4–6, exp. 37b)

End

ajñātvā kavacaṃ yas tu pūjayed aṃvikāṃ naraḥ ||

yāvajjīvaṃ bhaved rogī svalpaṃ bhavati jīvitaṃ || 15 ||

bhaktyā dhārayate yastu sarvān kāmān avāpnuyāt || 16 || (fol. 38v1–2, exp. 39t)

Colophon

iti vīrabhadrataṃtre kāḷīkavacaṃ samāptaṃ || 11 || (fol. 38v3, exp. 39t)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 980/7k

Date of Filming 07-02-1985

Exposures 114

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks The text is on exps. 37b–39t.

Catalogued byRT

Date 05-05-2006

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