A 980-7(18) Kālikākavaca (5)

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.: 24440

Title Kālikākavaca

Remarks The text is ascribed to Kālīrahasya.

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. 52v–58v.

Excerpts

Beginning

śrībhadrakālyai namaḥ || ||

bhavaduḥkhamahodvighnaṃ saṃtaptān karuṇārṇava ||

tvāṃ tu yā ceham īśaikaṃ trātum arhasi vāgjalaiḥ || 1 ||

kathitaṃ kālikādevyāḥ kāmadaṃ kavacaṃ mahat ||

rahasyaṃ kavacaṃ brūhi kasmaicin na yad īritaṃ || 2 ||

prayogasaṃghair bhavatā sādhako vimukhīkṛtaḥ ||

sādhanāt tad idānīṃ me pratyakṣīkaraṇaṃ vadā (!) || (fol. 52v3–6, exp. 53t)

End

rahasyaṃ kavacaṃ maṃtro rahasyaṃ kavacastutiḥ ||

rahasyakavacaṃ dhyānaṃ devyā vetti sasiddhibhāk || 66 ||

rahasyaṃ kavacaṃ vidyā rahasyaṃ kavacaṃ dhanaṃ ||

rahasyaṃ kavacaṃ jñānaṃ rahasyaṃ kavacaṃ kulaṃ || 67 ||

rahasyaṃ tiṣṭha kavacaṃ so kutaścid bhayaḥ sudhīḥ ||

jarāmaraṇanirmuktaḥ śāpānugrahakṛd bhavet || 68 || (fol. 58v1–4, exp. 59t)

Colophon

iti śrīkālīrahasye kālikākavacaṃ jagadrakṣākaraṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ || 17 || (fol. 58v4–5, exp. 59t)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 980/7r

Date of Filming 07-02-1985

Exposures 114

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks The text is on exps. 53t–59t.

Catalogued by RT

Date 16-05-2006

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