A 980-7(13) Kālikākavaca (2)

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 980/7
Title: Kālikākavaca
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.: 24435

Title Kālikākavaca

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. 40r–41r.

Excerpts

Beginning

kailāśaśikhare ramye nānācitravicitrite ||

kālikāṃ pratipapraccha bhairavo lokanāyaka || 1 ||

bhairava uvāca ||

kālikāyā mahāvidyā kathitā bhuvi durllabhā ||

tathāpi hṛdaye śalyam asti devi kṛpāṃ kuru || 2 ||

kavacaṃ tu mahādevi kathayasvānukaṃpayā ||

yadā na kathyate mātar vimuṃcāmi tadā tanuṃ || 3 || (fol. 40r1–4, exp. 40b)

End

hiṃsrebhyaḥ sarvadā pātu sādhakaṃ ca jalādikāt ||

dakṣiṇā kālikā devī vyāpakatve sadāvatu || 14 ||

idaṃ kavacam ajñātvā yo japet ghoradakṣiṇaṃ ||

na pūjāphalam āpnoti vighnas tasya pade pade || 15 ||

kavacenāvṛto nityaṃ yatra yatraiva gacchati ||

tatra tatrābhayaṃ tasya na kṣobho vidyate kvacit || 16 || (fol. 41r2–5, exp. 41b)

Colophon

iti śrīkālikākavacaṃ taṃtrāṃtaroktaṃ || || || (fol. 41r5–6, exp. 41b)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 980/7m

Date of Filming 07-02-1985

Exposures 114

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks The text is on exps. 40b–41b.

Catalogued by RT

Date 09-05-2006

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