Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 137/3
Title: Mahākālasaṃhitā
Dimensions: 54.5 x 14.5 cm x 157 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Tantra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 4/990
Remarks:

Reel No. B 137-3 Inventory No. 32694

Title Mahākālasaṃhitā

Subject Tantra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State incomplete, missing folios: 93–99

Size 54.5 x 14.5 cm

Folios 164

Lines per Folio 13

figures in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation ma. saṃ. and in the lower right-hand margin under the word rāma ; the fol. 92 has got several figures (which denotes the missing folios). Folioation of the fol. 92 is as follows : figures (92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98 and 99) in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation ma. kā. saṃ. and in the in the lower right-hand margin under the word rāmaḥ.

After the fol. 128, folios are not folioated. But, in the upper left-hand margin is written an abbreviation ma. saṃ. along with name of the paṭala (like  dvā. 12 pa, tra. 13 pa. etc.) and in the lower right-hand margin is written the word rāmaḥ on the verso.

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 4/990

Manuscript Features

Excerpts

Beginning

śrīḥ oṃ namaḥ paradevatāyai || ||

śrīmahākāla uvāca ||     ||

guhyakālyās tu mantrāṇām aṣṭāviṃśatidhā priye ||

sarvāgameṣu gopyās te na prakāśyāḥ kadācana ||

maṃtrāṇā(!) bhedato dhyānabhedā(!) syūr vvividhās tathā |

yaṃtrabhedā api tathā vāhanānāṃ bhidās tathā ||

yo maṃro yena cābhyastaṃs (!) tatrāmnāyaḥ prakīrttitaḥ |

brahmaṇā ca vaśiṣṭhena rāmeṇa ca tathā priye || (fol. 1v1–2)

End

pratyekam asyā bāhulyaṃ varttate phala(!) saṃbhavet ||

(ravistastayā) vacmi pravareṣu udīritaṃ ||

na tādṛśaṃ phalaṃ kiṃci (!) manuṣyāc chāradārccanāt ||

adya nīrājanaṃ rājā parāhne(!) vidadhīta vaiḥ(!) ||

vicitraveśavasanaḥ sahasrajanabāṃdhavaiḥ ||

cūḍāmaṇiparisphūrjjakirītaḥ(!) kuṇḍaloccalaḥ ||

lasatprālambiko muktāmānī (!) mukuṭamaṇḍī(!)taḥ ||

keyūrī śaṃkharīdatta(daṃśarīvaṃkula)/// (exp. 166:12–13)

«Sub-colophon:»

iti śrīmahākālasaṃhitāyāṃ naimir(!)ttikapūjāvidhāne kathanan nāmaḥ (!) dvādaśaṭamaḥ (!) paṭalaḥ || (fol. exp. 145 t: 10)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 137/3

Date of Filming 22-10-1971

Exposures 167

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks two exposures of fols. 9v–10r

Catalogued by BK

Date 13-12-2007

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