B 135-38 Mahākālatantra

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 135/38
Title: Mahākālatantra
Dimensions: 23 x 12 cm x 14 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Bauddha; Tantra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 5/7170
Remarks:

Reel No. B 135-38 Inventory No. 32795

Title Mahākālatantra

Subject Bauddhatantra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material paper

State incomplete, discontinued

Size 23.0 x 12.0 cm

Folios 14

Lines per Folio 11–13

Foliation letters in first four folios, a few folios are not foliated and in the few folios, figures in lower right-hand margin of the verso

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 5/7170

Manuscript Features

After the foliation 12v, folios of the 73r and 73v appear.

Excerpts

Beginning

❖ oṃ namo vajramahākālāya ||

evaṃ mayā śrutam ekasmin samaye bhagavān kāyavākcittabhe(2)dena vai devīnāṃ bhageṣu virahat | 

vajrapāṇīr āha | 

bho bhagavan cātur dvīpaloke dhātūnāṃ sa(3)ttvānāṃ amu(!)tpnnamānānāṃ yū(!)tpannāñcārthāya hitāya mudrārthāya cābhāṣasvāñjanaguṭi(4)kāpādukarasarasāyanāṇi (!) vaśīkaraṇamantrāṇi khaḍgādīnyaṣṭau siddhābhimantradhyānasamā(5)dhividhānāni ca | (exp. 3t,1–5)

End

bhagavān āha ||

kṣaṇamātre(8)ṇa yenaiva svatvāḥ prāpnuvantu sukhatvaṃ khasamaṃ tasmāt sādhanaṃ gṛhāṇa | bho vajrapāṇi nānānādikakarma(9)vidhāntinī (!) ||❖|| (fol. 14r7–9)

Colophon

iti śrīmahākālatantre mudrānirṇayadevatondhānaḥ (!) prathamo dhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ (‥) (fol. 14r9)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 135/38

Date of Filming 19-10-1971

Exposures 14

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by MS

Date 31-10-2007

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