B 145-18 Śivārcanacandrikā

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 145/18
Title: Śivārcanacandrikā
Dimensions: 39.5 x 16 cm x 641 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari; Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Tantra
Date: SAM 1970
Acc No.: NAK 5/2733
Remarks: folio number uncertain; b Śrīnivāsa Bhaṭṭa, folios 494?; A1294/12(f

Reel No. B 145-18

Inventory No. 66668

Title Śivārcanacandrikā

Author Śrīnivāsa Bhaṭṭa

Subject Śaiva Tantra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material Nepali paper

State incomplete

Size 39.5 x 16.0 cm

Folios 641

Lines per Folio 10-12

Foliation figures in the lower right-hand margin with word śrī

Date of Copying VS 1970

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 5/2733

Manuscript Features

Abbreviation of the marginal title appears: śi.caṃ. In the upper left-hand and word rāmaḥ is in the lower right-hand margin of the verso of the fourth foliation.

Foliations: (74 + 494 + 32 + 41)

MS contains the table of contains in the first two exposures and in the last one exposure.

MS contains the chapters up to the ṣaṭcatvāriṃśaḥ prakāśakaḥ in 494 folios.

One folio appears containing the stuti of pañcāyanadevatā and dakṣiṇamūrttijapavinoyoga in different hands.

vaiṣṇavamantrakhanḍa of the śivārcanacandrikā appears in separate 32 folioations in different hands; ends as:

garuḍaṃ śabdam uccāryya pravadec ca pracodayāt ||

gāyatrya(!)ṣā samākhyātā siddhidā mūlamaṃtrataḥ ||

Again vaiṣṇavamatra appears in different hands in another 41 foliations; ends as:

garudaṃ śabdam uccāryya pravade(!) ca pracodayāt ||

gāyatrya(!)ṣā samākhyātā siddhidā mūlamaṃtrataḥ ||

Two exposures on the first foliation of fols.13v–14r, 29v–30r, 35v–36r, 63v–64r, 67v–68r, 73v–74r

On the exp. 85 is written:

etacchivārcanacandrikāpustakaṃ nepālarājaguruhemarājaśarmaṇo jñeyam vai. saṃvat 1970

Two exposures on the second foliation of fols. 13v–14r, 81v–82r, 102v–104r, 112v–113r, 124v–125r, 133–134r, 145v–146r, 147v–148r, 149v–150r, 156v–157r, 183v–184r, 184v–185r, 185v–186r, 243v–244r, 255v–256r, 299v–300r, 316v–317r, 318v–319r, 321v–322r, 335v–336r, 339v–340r, 343v–345r, 351v–352r, 388v–389r, 393v–394r, 441v–442r, 450v–451r, 462v–463r, 470v–471r, 478v–479r,

Two exposures on the third foliation of fols. 18v–19r,

Two exposures on the fourth foliation of fols. 32v–33r, 38v–39r,

Excerpts

Beginning

❖ śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ||

śrīgurubhyo na[ma]ḥ

śrīśaṃbhave namaḥ ||

avighnam astu || ||

atha śauramantrā udhriyaṃta(!)

nandikeśvaramate ||

kailāśaśikhalā(!)sīnam arddhanārīśvaraṃ prabhuṃ |

brahmopendramahendrādyair devai(!) vidyādharais tata(!)

[mā]navair munibhiḥ siddhai(!) rakṣaubhīr apsaro gaṇaiḥ |

heraṃbaskaṃdapūrvvādigaṇair bhaktyā susevitaṃ |

akṣakrīḍārasā+dalāla saṃparameśvaraṃ |<ref name="ftn1">^{scribe leaves letters; unmetrical stanza}</ref> (fol. 1v1–3)

End

saṃsārasāgaraṃ ghoraṃ tarttu⟨ṃ⟩m icchaṃti ye narāḥ ||

abhyarcya devatās teṣāṃ potā ete mayā kṛtāḥ ||

eteṣv ekaṃ samāruhya tallokadvīpam etya ca ||

tatra bhuktvākhilān bhogān muktiratnam avāpnuyāt ||

suṃdarācāryyaśiṣyeṇa [[śrī]]nivāsena dhīmatā ||

ṣaḍcatvāriṃśad agamat praṇītāyāṃ prakāśakaḥ || (fol. 493v11, 494r1–2)

Colophon

|| iti śrīsuṃdarācāryacaraṇāraviṃdadvaṃdvāṃtevāsinā śrīśrīnivāsabhaṭṭena viracitāyāṃ śrīśivārcanacaṃdrikāyāṃ ṣaṭcatvāriṃśaḥ prakāśakaḥ sampūrṇam(!) || || śubham || (fol. 494r2–3)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 145/18

Date of Filming 02-11-1971

Exposures 694

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by MS

Date 12-08-2008

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