Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 987/3
Title: Śvetakālīkavaca
Dimensions: 21.5 x 8.6 cm x 4 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Karmakāṇḍa (vaidika, āgamika, tāntrika etc.)
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 3/569
Remarks: as Vaḍavānalatantra; A 838/28

Reel No. A 987-3

Inventory No.: 74668

Reel No.: A 987/3

Title Śvetakālīkavaca

Remarks ascribed in the colophon to the Vāḍavānalīyatantra

Subject Tantra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material Nepali paper

State complete

Size 21.5 x 6.8 cm

Folios 4

Lines per Folio 5

Foliation figures in the middle of the right-hand margin on the verso

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 3/569

Manuscript Features

Excerpts

Beginning

❖ śrigaṇeśāya namaḥ || ||

bhairava uvāca ||

sahasranāmataḥ pūrvvam paṭhanīyan tu yad bhavet |

tad ahaṃ saṃpravakṣyāmi divyaṃ kavacam uttamam || 1 ||

kavacasyasya (!) deveśi mutpādyāḥ pūrvvavan matāḥ ||

viśeṣaḥ sarvvarakṣāyai viniyogaḥ prakīrttitaḥ || 2 ||

śiro me pātu cāmuṇḍā lalāṭaṃ kālikāvatu ||

trinetrā netrayugalaṃ ghrāṇaṃ pātu mamāṃbikā || 3 ||

kapolau pātu kalyāṇī karṇṇau me kāmadāvatu |

mukhaṃ muktipradā pātu bhogadā dantavāsīnī (!) || 4 || (fols. 1v1–2r1)

End

yaḥ svarṇaguṭikāṃ kṛtvā likhitaṃ vāgrajanmanā |

pūjayitvā vidhānena maṃtrasaṃskārapūrvvakaṃ |

kaṇthe dakṣabhuje vāpi dhārayet sādhakottamaḥ |

pūjānte kīrttayec cāpi kīrttayec cāpi nityaṃ bhaktiparāyaṇaḥ || 15 ||

sa bhavet sarvasiddhīśo nātra kāryyā vicāraṇā |

na tasya durllabhaṃ kiṃcin nāsādhyaṃ vā carācare || 16 ||

vidyate para[[me]]śāni tasmād yatnena sādhayet |

etatkavacamajñātvā yo japet śvetakālikāṃ || 17 ||

śatakoṭiprajaptopi maṃtras tasya na siddhyati |

tasmāt sarvvaprayatnena kavacaṃ pariśīlayet || 18 || || (fol. 3r4–4r1)

Colophon

iti śrīvāḍavānalīye mahātaṃtre śrīśvetakālīkavacaṃ samāptam || ❖ || oṃ || ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ || (fol. 5v1–4)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 987/3

Date of Filming 01-04-1985

Exposures 5

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks

Catalogued by RT

Date 29-07-2008

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