A 980-7(22) Kālikāmantrakavaca

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 980/7
Title: Kālikāmantrakavaca
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.: 24444

Title Kālikāmantrakavaca

Author Kālabhairava

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. 73v–80r.

Excerpts

Beginning

śrīgurave namaḥ ||

sumeroś cottare śṛṃge devaṃ devaṃ jagadguruṃ ||

uvāca parayā bhaktyā devī natvā vṛṣadhvajaṃ || 1 ||

pārvaty uvāca ||

deva deva mahādeva sarvaśāstrārthapāraga ||

kālikākavacaṃ deva sūcitaṃ na prakāśitaṃ | 2 |

jānāmi kavacaṃ tasyāḥ kenopāyena he prabho ||

tasmān me kathayasāsya yady ahaṃ prāṇavallabhā 3 || (fol. 73v2–6, exp. 74t)

End

gadyapadyamayī vāṇī jāyate vaktragahvarāt ||

śrīrāma iti vīryyeṇa sūryasyaiva hi tejasā || 74 ||

krodhe gamasamānaḥ syād dhane dhanapatir yathā ||

sauṃdarye kāmatulyosau raṇe - - - satsaropamaḥ || 75 ||

satyaṃ satyaṃ mahādevi satyaṃ satyaṃ na saṃśayaḥ ||

etat stotraṃ ca yo vetti sohaṃ sohaṃ na saṃśayaḥ || 76 ||

kālikākavacaṃ medvi (!) kālabhairavanirmitaṃ || 76 || (fol. 80r1–5, exp. 80b)

Colophon

iti śrīsumerottare śṛṃgasthitakālabhairavanirmitaṃ kālikāmaṃtrakavacaṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ || 23 || (fol. 80r5–6, exp. 80b)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 980/7v

Date of Filming 07-02-1985

Exposures 114

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks The text is on exps. 74t–80b.

Catalogued by RT

Date 23-05-2006

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