B 117-4 Kāmadhenutantra

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 117/4
Title: Kāmadhenutantra
Dimensions: 24 x 11 cm x 41 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Stotra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 4/2737
Remarks:

Reel No. B 117-4 Inventory No. 29807

Title Kāmadhenutantra

Subject Śaivatantra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State incomplete, missing fols are: 1, 2, 25 and 39

Size 24. 0. x 11. 0 cm

Folios 39

Lines per Folio 8–9

Foliation figures in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation kā. dhe. and in the lower right-hand margin under the word guruḥ on the verso

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 4/2737

Manuscript Features

Folio number 5 is double mentioned but text is not repeated

Excerpts

Beginning

///varṇapaṃcaprāṇamayaṃ sadā || ī 4 ||

ukāraṃ parameśāni tāraḥ kuṇḍalini (!)  svayaṃ

pītacampa(2)kasaṃkāśaṃ paṃca(deva)mayaṃ sadā ||

paṃcaprāṇamayaṃ devi caturvargapradāyakaṃ || u 5 ||

ūkā(3)raṃ devadeveśi bījaṃ paramadurllabham ||

śaṃkhakundasamākāraṃ svayaṃ paramakuṇḍalī || (fol. 3r1–3)

End

candrabījaṃ puṭaṃ kṛtvā japed varṇaṃ prasannadhīḥ ||

anulomavilo(42v1)mena japtāmṛtamayo bhavet ||

kevalaṃ kāminī dhyātvā praphullavadanāṃtaraṃ ||

bījād utpadya(2)te devo devī vā kamalekṣaṇe

tatas tu devatāṃ dhyātvā nirīkṣa (!) devavigrahaṃ ||     || (fol. 42r8–42v2)

Colophon

i(3)ti śrīkāmadhenutaṃtre devadevīsaṃvāde ekaviṃśatitamaḥ paṭalaḥ samāptaḥ || ❁ || (fol. 42v2–3)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 117/4

Date of Filming 07-10-1971

Exposures 46

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks two exposures of fols, 6v–7r, 26v–27r and 35v–36r

Catalogued by BK

Date 11-10-2006

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