Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 981/19
Title: Kālikāmantrakavaca
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.: 25973

Reel No.: A 981/19as

Title Kālikāmantrakavaca

Author Kālabhairava

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

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

On fol. 1r is written

idam pustakam śrīsāmrājyalakṣmidevyā putra upendravikramasya

Excerpts

Beginning

śrīgurave namaḥ || ||

sumero cottare śṛṃge devadevaṃ jagadguruṃ ||

uvāca parayā bhaktyā devī natvā vṛṣadhvaja || 1 ||

pārvaty uvāca ||

devadeva mahādeva sarvaśāstrārthapāraga ||

tasmān me kathayasvādya yady ahaṃ prāṇavallabhā || 2 ||

īśvara uvāca ||

dhṛṣṭāsi kiṃ mahādevī yan māṃ pṛchasi sāṃprataṃ ||

satyaṃ satyaṃ mahādevī kathitaṃ naiva suvrate || 3 ||

pārvaty uvāca ||

śṛṇu deva prāṇanātha nāhaṃ hi tavavallabhā ||

sadbhaktajanavātsalyād asatām aśī (!) śobhana || 4 ||

kālikā kavacaṃ divyaṃ punaś ca kathayasva me ||

anyathā prāṇamaṃnyāgaṃ kariṣyāmi na saṃsayaḥ || 5 ||

īśvara uvāca ||

śṛṇu devī varārohe kathaṃ tatpravadāmi te ||

tathāpi kathayiṣyāmi yatas tvaṃ prāṇavallabhā || 6 ||

jānāmi kālikāṃ devīṃ saccidānaṃdarupiṇīṃ ||

kulakaṃḍalinīrūpāṃ pramattāṃ jñānagahvaraṃ || 7 || (fols. 32v5–33r2)

End

paṃḍitāya ca bhaktāya taṃtramaṃtrayutāya ca ||

nāstikāya kuśīlāya niṃdakāya tathaiva ca || 68 ||

yo dadāti mahāvidyāṃ tasya pāpaphalaṃ śṛṇu ||

māsādurdhvaṃ mahādevi raveḥ sutagṛhaṃ vrajet || 69 ||

idaṃ kavacam ajñātvā yo japet kālikāmanaṃ ||

tasyāṃgaṃ bhakṣayet kālī yogīṃnyaḥ sarvadā tathā || 70 ||

vāṃdhavebhyo na vaktavyaṃ na vaktavyaṃ kadācana ||

kalpāyutasahasraṃ tu niḥkṛtiḥ tasya nāsti hi || 71 ||

evaṃ tu kavacaṃ devi trailokyamohanaṃ mahat ||

maṃtraṃ va (!) kavacaṃ devi samam eva na saṃśayaḥ || 72 ||

trisaṃdhyaṃ yaḥ paṭhed devi sarvadā sarvasiddhidaṃ ||

gadyapadyamayī vāṇī jāyate vakravahvarāt (!) || 73 ||

śrīrāma iti vīryya (!) na (!) sūryyasyaiva hi tejasā ||

krodhe gamasamānaḥ syā dhane dhanapatir yathā || 74 ||

sauṃdarye kāmatulyo sau raṇe matsamopana (!) ||

satyaṃ satyaṃ mahādevi satyaṃ satyaṃ na saṃśayaḥ || 75 ||

etat stotraṃ ca yo vetti sohaṃ sohaṃ na saṃśayaḥ ||

kālikākavacam etadhi kālabhairavanirmitaṃ || 76 || (fols. 35v6–36r4)

Colophon

iti śrīsumerottare śṛṃgasthite kālabhairavanirmitaṃ kālikāmaṃtrakavacaṃ saṃpūrṇam || 19 || (fol. 36r4–5)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 981/19as

Date of Filming 05-03-1985

Exposures 51

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks

Catalogued by RT

Date 17-12-2007

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