B 128-8 Durgāstiraharīyamahātantra

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 128/8
Title: Durgāstiraharīyamahātantra
Dimensions: 31 x 12.5 cm x 49 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Tantra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 5/6781
Remarks:

Reel No. B 128-8 Inventory No. 20087

Title Durgāsthiraharīyamahātantra

Subject Śaivatantra

Language Sanskrit

Reference BSP, 4.1, p. 201, no. 439 (3/141)

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State complete

Size 31.0 x 12.5 cm

Folios 49

Lines per Folio 11

Foliation figures in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation ra. yā. pū. and in the lower right-hand margin under the word rāmaḥ on the verso

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 5/6781

Manuscript Features

A blank exposure appears between fols. 16 and 17.

Excerpts

Beginning

oṃ namaḥ śrīugracaṇḍāyai ||     ||

atha raṇayātrāpūjāvidhir likhyate ||     ||

tatrādau saṃkalpaṃ kuryāt || oṃ adyetyādideśakālau smṛtvā viṣṇu3 śrīviṣṇuḥ (2) prajāpatikṣetre varttamānasamvatsare amukāyane amukaṛtau amukamāse amukapakṣe amukatithau yathānakṣatravāralagnakaraṇasamanvitāyāṃ amukagotra(3)sya amukanāmabhūpasya svasainyarakṣārthaṃ parasainyaparāyaṇārthaṃ ṣaḍviṃśadadhikaśatadevatāpūjanaṃ raṇayātrām ahaṃ kariṣye || iti saṃkalpaṃ vidhāya ||     || pūjanaṃ (4) yathā ||

atha tat saṃpravakṣyāmi catuḥṣaṣṭiparaṃ mahat ||

yena pūjanamātreṇa saṃgrāme vijayī bhavet || (fol. 1v1–4)

End

adātavyam idaṃ karma (!) mantragarbharahasyakaṃ ||

avaktavyaṃ mahāpuṇyaṃ sarvasā(9)rasvatapradaṃ ||

adīkṣitāya no (!) dadyāt kucailāya durātmane ||

anyaśiṣyāya duṣṭāya nindakāya kuśākhine (!) ||

dīkṣitāya kulīnāya gurubhaktiratāya ca ||

śāntāya kulaśaktāya śāntā(10)ya kulakāmine ||

idaṃ karma (!) śive dadyāt kulabhāgī bhaven naraḥ || 

idaṃ rahasyaṃ paramaṃ durgākavacam uttamam ||

guhyaṃ gopyatamaṃ gopyaṃ gopanīyaṃ svayonivat ||     || (fol. 49r9–10)

Colophon

iti śrīdurgāsthi(11)rahariyamahātantre (!) ugracaṇḍāmantrakavacākhyānaṃ nāmāṣṭādaśapaṭalaḥ ||     || 18 ||     || (fol. 49r10–11)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 128/8

Date of Filming 12-10-1971

Exposures 52

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by

Date 29-05-2007

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