A 980-7(5) Mahākālakavaca

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 980/7
Title: Mahākālakavaca
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.: 24427

Title Mahākālakavaca

Remarks The text is ascribed to the Gandharvatantra.

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. 23r–25v.

Excerpts

Beginning

śrībhairavy uvāca ||

deva deva mahādeva bhaktānāṃ sukhavarddhanaṃ ||

kena siddhiṃ dadāty āśu kāliṃ trailokyamohiniṃ ||

tan me vada dayāpāra sādhakābhīṣṭasiddhaye ||

kṛpāṃ kuru jagannātha vada me parameśvara || 2 || (fol. 23r6–23v2, exp. 24b–25t)

End

yatra yatra bhayaṃ prāpte sarvatra prapaṭhen nara (!) ||

tathā yadi trāṇaparo bhavaty eva na saṃśayaḥ || 26 ||

vāmapārśve samānīya śobhitāṃ varakāminīṃ ||

japaṃ kṛtvā paṭhed yas tu tasya siddhiḥ kare sthitā || 27 ||

idaṃ kavaca ajñātvā yo kālī (!) bhajate naraḥ ||

naiva siddhir bhavet tasya vighnaḥ syāc ca pade pade || 28 || || (fol. 25v2–5, exp. 27t)

Colophon

iti śrīgaṃdharvatantre bhairavabhairavīsaṃvāde śrīmāhākālakavacaṃ saṃpūrṇam || || 6 || (fol. 25v5–6, exp. 27t)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 980/7e

Date of Filming 07-02-1985

Exposures 114

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks The text is on exps. 24b–27t.

Catalogued by RT

Date 26-04-2006

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