B 144-9 Vārāhītantra
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Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: B 144/9
Title: Vārāhītantra
Dimensions: 31 x 13 cm x 233 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Tantra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 3/315
Remarks:
Reel No. B 144-9 Inventory No. 85275
Title Vārāhītantra
Subject Śaiva Tantra
Language Sanskrit
Manuscript Details
Script Devanagari
Material paper
State incomplete
Size 31.0 x 13.0 cm
Folios 233
Lines per Folio 10
Foliation figures on the verso, in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation vārāhī or vārā. or vā. taṃ. and in the lower right-hand under the word śivaḥ or guruḥ
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 3/315
Manuscript Features
Missing folio 32
Two exposures of fols. 35v–36r, 43v–44r, 84v–85r, 90v–91r, 101v–102r and 103v–104r
Fols. 60v–61r are out of focus.
Fol. 122 is assigned twice to the two successive folios.
śrīvārāhītaṃtrasamāpti patra 233
Excerpts
Beginning
oṁ namaḥ śrīsuṃdarīkālikāvārāhīdevyai namaḥ || ||
kāmarūpe mahāpīṭhe ruṇḍamuṇḍopari sthite ||
nānāgaṇasamākīrṇe vicitrayoginīganā(!) ||
yasyā yogya[ṃ] samādāya vāhanaṃ ca pṛthak pṛthak ||
tanmadhyasaṃsthitā vīraḥ pracaṇḍasūkarāsanaḥ ||
bhāvayukta[ṃ] namaskṛtya pra(!)praccha guhyakālikā ||
yuktāmṛtakathaṃ nātha sarvatra śreṣṭha(!) kiṃ bhavet ||
kautukaṃ ca mayāścaryyam apavitrapavitrakaṃ ||
vārāhīsaṃjñayā taṃtraṃ dhyānāgamaḥ kathaṃ prabho ||
kiaṃcit smaraṇamātreṇa caturvargga(!) prakīrttitā[ḥ] ||
namaskṛtya puna[r] prāha vismayotpullalocanaṃ || || (fol. 1v1–5)
End
puṣpāṃjalitrayaṃ datvā daṇḍavat praṇato mataṃ ||
dhyānajapa(!) tathākṛtvā namas tasyai namo namaḥ ||
vārāhī(!) varade devi suṃdarīrūpayauvanī(!) ||
bhaktebhyo varade devi sundari tvāṃ namo [ʼ]stu te ||
mahiṣachāgakukkuṭā meṣādinaraghātakāḥ ||
balidānena saṃtuṣṭā saṃgrāme jayadāyanī ||
sundarī kālikā devi (!) vārāhī varadāyanī ||
varadātrī mahākāli (!) mahiṣāsuraghātinī ||
kaumārī pūjayitvā ca aṣṭottaraśataṃ priye ||
pūjayitvā vidhānena devi saṃtoṣam āpnuyāt || || (fol. 232v7–10)
Colophon
(iti śrīvārāhītaṃtre dakṣiṇāmnāyanirvvāṇapade pūjāvidhir nāma ṣaṭtriṃśat-paṭala )|| 36 || ||
yad akṣarapadabhraṣṭaṃ mātrāhīnaṃ ca yad bhavet ||
tat sarvvaṃ kṣamyatāṃ devi prasīda parameśvarī || ||
varāhītaṃtrapūrvakhaṇḍa(!) || || (fol. 233r10–233v2)
Microfilm Details
Reel No. B 144/9
Date of Filming 01-11-1971
Exposures 242
Used Copy Kathmandu
Type of Film positive
Catalogued by BK
Date 29-07-2008
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