Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 981/26
Title: Mahālakṣmīvratakathā
Dimensions: 21.6 x 10.4 cm x 8 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Karmakāṇḍa (vaidika, āgamika, tāntrika etc.)
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 3/65
Remarks:

Reel No. A 981-26

Inventory No.: 55051, 55050

Reel No.: A 981/26

Title Mahālakṣmīvratakathā

Subject Stotra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devnagari

Material Nepali loose paper

State complete

Size 21.6 x 10.4 cm

Folios 8

Lines per Folio 6–8

Foliation figures on the verso, in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation ra. kṣmi and in the lower right-hand margin under the word rāma

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 3/65

Manuscript Features

The MS contains many scribal errors.

Excerpts

Beginning

oṃ namaḥ | śrīsiddhilakṣmai devyai || ||

śrī devyūvāca ||

śrūtaṃ rahasyaṃ me deva tvatprasādāt mahiśvara |

idāṃni śrotum ichāmi varmmapratyaṃṅgirābhidaṃ || 1 ||

vajraḥpañjaramadhyaṣu sāraṃ yatpañjaraṃ mahat ||

abhedya varvvamantrāṇāśastrāṇāṃ vinivāraṇaṃ || 2 ||

sarvvavarmmeṣu yacchreṣṭaṃ bhavatā viṣṇūnā dhṛtaṃ ||

sārāt sārata divyaṃ kavacaṃ suradurllabhaṃ || 3 ||

yema saṃtajya divyena kavacenaṃ maheśvaraḥ

abhedyaṃ ca mahāviryya yadi yogyosmi dhāraṇe || 4 || (fol. 1v1–6)

End

nātaḥ parataraṃ lābhaṃ vidyate bhuvanodare || 68 ||

yo nyaset kavacaṃ divyaṃ śṛṇu puṇyaphalaṃ mahat ||

vyādhiduḥkhavinirmmukto rūpavān gunavān bhavet || 69 ||

tasya vighno na jāyat te vighno dhātrasya te dhruvaṃ || 70 ||

rogās tasya jāyate śatrubhir nābhibhūyate ||

sarvvaṃ tasya vasaṃ yānti prāṇīnaś caturvvidhān || 71 ||

varṣamyakaṃ paṭhet bhaktyā kavacaṃ viṣṇunirmmitaṃ ||

śatru sarvvān vinirjjitya rājarājo bhaved dhruvaṃ || 72 ||

tasmāt sarvvaprayatnena pathaniyattusādaraṃ || 73 || (fol. 8v2–8)

Colophon

iti śrīmāhālakṣmīvratakathā samāpta 1 śubhaṃ || || || || (fol. 8v8)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 981/26

Date of Filming 05-03-1985

Exposures 11

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks

Catalogued by RT

Date 28-01-2008

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