B 136-13 Mātaṅgītantra

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 136/13
Title: Mātaṅgītantra
Dimensions: 31 x 12 cm x 13 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: unknown
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Tantra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 4/2591
Remarks:

Reel No. B 136-13 Inventory No. 37918

Title Mātaṅgītantra

Remarks ascribed to the Nandavarttatantra (uttarakhaṇda)

Subject Śaivatantra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material paper

State complete

Size 31.0 x 12.0 cm

Folios 25 (pages)

Lines per Folio 2–9

Foliation figures in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation mā. taṃ. on each page of the verso and recto

Illustrations two picutes of Yantra and one picture of Mātaṅgī

Scribe Devānanda

Date of Copying SAM 1960

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 4/2591

Manuscript Features

Although, the MS is not in modern book form, it is foliated in both sides (recto and verso) like a modern book.

Excerpts

Beginning

atha mātaṅgīdhyānam

śrīmanmaṅgalamūrttaye namaḥ ||     ||

śyāmāṅgīṃ śaśiśekharān trinayanāṃ ratnasiṃhāsanasthitāṃ ||

bedair(!)  bāhur daṇḍair asi kheṭakapāśāṅkuśadharām ||

atha yantroddhāra ….

mantroddhāraḥ

praṇavañ ca tato māyāṅ kāmavījañ ca kūrcakam ||

mātaṅgī ṅeyutā cāstraṃ ba(!)hnījāyā vadhir mmanu ||      || (page 1 l 1–2 and 2 l 1)

End

vande śrīsumukhīm prasannavadanām pūrṇendubimbānanāṃ ||

sindūrāṃkitamastakām madhumadollolāñ ca muktāvalīm ||

śyāmāṅ kañjalikākarāṅkanagatañ cādhyāpayantīṃ śukaṅ

guñjāpūñjavibhūṣaṇāṃ sakaruṇām āmuktaveṇīlatām || (page 25 l 3–5)

Colophon

iti śrīnandāvarttatantre uttarakhaṇḍe mātaṅgīsahasranāmastotram saṃpūrṇam ||     || saṃ 1960 devānanda(!) likhitam (page 25 l 5)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 136/13

Date of Filming 22-10-1971

Exposures 16

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by MS

Date 07-12-2007

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