Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 981/19
Title: Kālikākavaca
Dimensions: 32.6 x 12.9 cm x 46 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Stotra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 3/251
Remarks:

Reel No. A 981-19

MTM Inventory No.: 25965

Reel No.: A 981/19ak

Title Kālikākavaca

Subject Stotra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material Nepali loose paper

State complete

Size 32.6 x 12.9 cm

Folios 46

Lines per Folio 9

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 rāmaḥ

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 3/251

Manuscript Features

Mahājaganmaṅgalakavaca (fols. 1v–7r)
Kālīkavaca (fols. 7r–8r)
Kālīkavaca (fols. 8r–9v)
Viśvamaṅgalakavaca (fols. 9v–11r)
Dakṣiṇākavaca (fols. 11r–12r)
Kālikākavaca (fols. 12r–13v)
Dakṣiṇakālikāyā Āpaduddhāraṇakavaca (fols. 13v–14v)
Dakṣiṇakālikāyā Bhogadakavaca (fols. 14v–15r)
Kālīkavaca (fol. 15r–15v)
Dakṣiṇakālīkavaca (fols. 15v–16v)
Kālikākavaca (fols. 16v–17r)
Bajrapaṃjarakavaca (fols. 17r–18r)
Kālikākavaca (fols. 18r–19v)
Kālikākavaca (fols. 19v–21v)
Kālikākavaca (fols. 21v–24v)
Dakṣiṇakālikākavaca (fols. 24v–27r)
Kālikākāmadakavaca (fols. 27r–30r)
Kālikākavaca (fols. 30r–32v)
Kālikāmantrakavaca (fols. 32v–36r)
Dakṣiṇakālī Abhedyakavaca (fols. 36r–38v)
Kālikākavaca (fols. 38v–39r)
Trailokyamohanamantrakavaca (fol. 39r–39r)
Kālīstava (fols. 39r–41v)
Kālikāstavarāja (fols. 41v–43v)
Yajñakālikavaca (fols. 43v–44r)
Kālikāstava (fol. 44r–44r)
Brahmagāthāstuti (fols. 44r–45r)
Dakṣiṇakālīstavaḥ (fol. 45r–45v)
Puṣpiṇīstotra (fols. 45v–46v)

On fol. 1r is written

idam pustakam śrīsāmrājyalakṣmidevyā putra upendravikramasya

Excerpts

«Complete Transcript:»

kailāsaśikhare raṃmye (!) nānācitravicitrite ||

kālikāṃ paraipapracha (!) bhairavo lokanāyakaḥ || 1 || ||

bhairava uvāca ||

kālikāyā mahāvidyā kathitā bhuvi durllabhā ||

tathāpi hṛdaye śalyam asti devi kṛpāṃ kuruḥ (!) || 1 ||

kavacaṃ tu mahādevi kathayasvānukaṃpayā ||

yadā na kathyate mātar vimuṃcāmi tadā tanuṃ || 2 || ||

devy uvāca ||

śaṃkāpi jāyate vatsa tava snehāt prakāśyate ||

na vaktavya (!) na draṣṭavyaḥ mitiguhyataraṃ (!) mahat || 3 ||

kālikā jagatāṃ mātā śokaduḥkhavināśinī ||

viśeṣata kaliyuge mahāpātakahāriṇī || 4 ||

kālī me purataḥ pātu pṛṣṭhātaś (!) ca kapālinī ||

kullā māṃ daviṇe (!) pātu kurukullā tathottare || 6 ||

virodhinī śiraḥ pātu vipraciṃttā ca cakṣukhī (!) ||

ugra me nāśikāṃ pātu karṇau vāgne (!) prabhā matā || 7 ||

vadanaṃ pātu diptā me nīlā ca cibukaṃ sadā ||

ghanā grīvāṃ sadā pātu valākā vāhuyugmakaṃ || 8 ||

mātrā pātu karadvaṃdvaṃ vakṣo mudrā sadāvatu ||

mitā pātu stanadvaṃdvaṃ yoni maṃḍaladevatā || 9 ||

brāhmī me jaṭharaṃ pātu nābhiṃ nārāyaṇī tathā ||

ūrū māheśvarī nityaṃ cāmuṃḍā pātu liṃgakaṃ || 10 ||

kaumārī ca kaṭiṃ pātu tathaiva jaṃghayugmakaṃ ||

aparājitā ca pādau me vārāhī pātu cāṃgulī || 11 ||

saṃdhisthānaṃ nārasiṃhī yatrasthā devatāvatu ||

rakṣāhīnaṃ tu yat sthānaṃ varjjitaṃ kavacena tu || 12 ||

tat sarvaṃ rakṣa me devī kālike ghoradakṣiṇe ||

ūrddham adhas tathā dikṣu pātu devī svayaṃ vapuḥ || 13 ||

hiṃsrebhyaḥ sarvadā pātu sādhakaṃ ca jalādikāt ||

dakṣiṇākālikā devī vyāpakatve sadāvatu || 14 ||

idaṃ kavacam ajñātvā yo jape ghoradakṣiṇāṃ ||

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

kavacenāvṛto nityaṃ yatra yatraiva gachati (!) ||

tatra tatrābhayaṃ tasya na kṣobho vidyate kvacit || 16 || ||

iti śrī kālikākavacaṃ taṃtrāṃtaroktaṃ || 11 || (fols. 16v4–17r9)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 981/19ak

Date of Filming 05-03-1985

Exposures 51

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks

Catalogued by RT

Date 06-12-2007

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