Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 147/5
Title: Śivanṛtya
Dimensions: 30 x 12.5 cm x 41 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Tantra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 5/5084
Remarks:

Reel No. B 147-5

Inventory No.: 66268

Title Śivanṛtyacarāṅka

Remarks ascribed to the Nagendraprayāṇa, which itself is regarded as a part of the Śivatāṇḍavatantra; in the Preliminary Title List, the title was given as Śivanṛtya.

Subject Śaiva Tantra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material paper

State incomplete, available folios: 17–50 and 52–57; the upper middle part of fol. 39r is slightly damaged;

Size 30.0 x 12.5 cm

Folios 40

Lines per Folio 8

Foliation figures on the verso, in the lower right-hand margin under the half title tāṇḍava, while the word śiva has been written in the upper left-hand margin; on the verso of the last folio, in the upper left-hand corner, is written śiva tāṇḍa taṃtraṃ.

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 5/5084 (NAK viṣayasaṃkhyā: Śaivatantra 1478)

Manuscript Features

The date VS 1478 is written on the cover-leaf, but it is not clear whether this is the date of copying.

atha mātṛkāyantraḥ

a 8 ⟪a⟫ ā 5 … śa 6 ṣa 4 sa 1

a 8 ā 5 … śa 6 ṣa 4 sa 1

<<<Give which parts of the text are missing.>>>

Excerpts

Beginning

///- caturtha4ke ||

tṛtīye 3 gaja8saṃkhe(!) tu, vilikhet sādhakottamaḥ || 72 ||

sādhyasādhakayor vvarṇṇān rasa6saṃkhyāvibhājitān ||

sādhyam atra varārohe, hiṃgulānāmadevatā || 73 ||

idaṃ yaṃtraṃ varādhikyaṃ, kaṃ 10 bāhau tu dhārayet || (!)

na duḥkhaṃ jāyate tasya, vilikhed gaṃdhacaṃdanai(!) || 74 ||

pūjayet tu prayatnena, yāvad duḥkhaṃ praśāmyati ||

idaṃ yaṃtraṃ samākhyātaṃ gopyaṃ prāṇādhikaṃ mama || 75 || (fol.17r1–4)

End

karttā harttā svaya(!) devi jāyate mānavottamaḥ ||

idaṃ yaṃtrādhirājaṃ tu mayā tubhyam udīritaṃ || 416 ||

tava snehād varārohe aprakāśya(!) prakāśitaṃ ||

gopanīyaṃ prayatnena svayonir iva suṃdari || 417 ||

iti yaṃtrarājādhirājaśivatulyaṃ yaṃtraṃ || 54 ||  || (fol. 57r4–7)

Colophon

iti sarvvataṃtrottame nagendraprayāṇe śrīdakṣiṇāmūrttipārvvatisamvāde śivanṛtye carāṃke ṣoḍaśakoṣṭhayaṃtravivaraṇaṃ caturddaśaḥ paṭalaḥ ||     || 55 ||    ||

saṃpūrṇna(!) śubham astuḥ(!) ||

oṃ gaṇapataye namaḥ ||    ||mahādevyai namaḥ ||

sādhyavarṇṇasaṃkhyā likhyate || ya- /// (fol. 57r6–8)

«Probably here only some few lines are missing to the end of the colophon.»

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 147/5

Date of Filming 02-11-1971

Exposures 44

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by BK/RK

Date 03-06-2008

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