A 980-7(16) Kālikākavaca (4)

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.: 24438

Title Kālikākavaca

Remarks The text is ascribed to Rudrayāmalamahātantra.

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. 46r–49r.

Excerpts

Beginning

śrī devy uvāca ||

bhagavan brūhi kavacaṃ bhuktimuktipradāyakaṃ ||

trailokyamohanaṃ nāma kṛpayā me jagadguro || 1 ||

śiva uvāca ||

śṛṇu devi varārohe kavacaṃ paramādbhutaṃ ||

yad dhṛtvā paṭhanād brahmā sṛṣṭikarttā bhaved bibhuḥ || 2 || (fol. 46r1–4, exp. 46b)

End

kaṃṭhe vā dakṣiṇe vāhau aṣṭasiddhir bhaved dhruvaṃ ||

idaṃ kavacam ajñātvā yo japet kālidakṣiṇāṃ || 33 ||

śatalakṣaprajapto pi na maṃtaraḥ siddhidāyakaḥ || 34 || (fol. 48v6–49r1, exp. 49t–b)

Colophon

iti rudrayāmale mahātaṃtre kālikākavacaṃ saṃpūrṇam || 14 || (fol. 49r1–2, exp. 49b)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 980/7p

Date of Filming 07-02-1985

Exposures 114

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks The text is on exps. 46b–49b.

Catalogued by RT

Date 15-05-2006

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