B 201-5 Kālikāpurāṇa

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 201/5
Title: Kālikāpurāṇa
Dimensions: 33 x 11 cm x 213 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Purāṇa
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 5/5549
Remarks:

Reel No. B 201-5 Inventory No. 29307

Title Kālikāpurāṇa

Author attributed to Vyāsa

Subject Purāṇa

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material paper

State complete

Size 33.0 x 11.0 cm

Folios 273

Lines per Folio 9

Foliation figures in the middle right-hand margin on the verso

Scribe Cakrarāja

Date of Copying SAM (NS) 906, ŚS ?

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 5/5549

Manuscript Features

A numbered folio (the figure 134 is written in the middle right-hand margin on the verso), which, however, is not related to the text and was microfilmed thrice, appears between fols. 67 and 68.

The MS is written in a different hand from fol. 73v onwards.

Excerpts

Beginning

❖ oṃ namaś caṇḍikāyai ||

śrīgaṇeśā[ya] namaḥ ||

yad yogibhir bhavabhayārttivināśayogya,m

āsādya vanditam atīva viviktacittaiḥ |

tad vaḥ punātu haripādasarojayugma,m

āvirbhavat kramavilaṃghitabhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ ||

sā pātu vaḥ sakalayogijanasya citte,

[ʼ]vidyātamiśrataraṇir bhuvi muktihetuḥ |

yā cānyajantunivahasya vimohanīti-,

māyāvidher jjagati śuddhasu(!)buddhihantrī ||

īśvaraṃ jagatām ādyaṃ praṇamya puruṣottamaṃ |

nityajñānamayaṃ vakṣye, purāṇaṃ kālikāhvayaṃ ||

mārkkaṇḍeyaṃ muniśreṣṭhaṃ, sthitaṃ himadharāntike |

munayaḥ paripapracchuḥ praṇamya kamaṭhādayaḥ ||

bhagavan samyag ākhyātaṃ, sarvvaśāstrāṇi tattvataḥ |

vedān sarvvān(!)s tathā śā(!)ṅgān, sārabhūtaṃ pramathya ca || (fol. 1v1–5)

End

yo lokam īśaḥ satataṃ bibhartti

yaḥ pālayed antakaraś ca yaḥ syāt |

idaṃ samasta(!) trayam atra śaśvat

tadīyarūpaṃ ca namo [ʼ]stu tasmai ||

pradhānapuruṣau yasya prapañcau yogināṃ hṛdi |

yaḥ purāṇādhipo viṣṇuḥ prasīdatu sanātanaḥ ||

yo hetur ugraḥ puruṣaḥ purāṇaḥ

purāṇakṛd vedapurāṇakebhyaḥ ||

paraḥ parebhyaś ca purārirūpo

dhyeyaṃ ca tannāma purāṇaśeṣe ||

iti sakalajagad bibhartti yā sā

madhuripumohakarī namo [ʼ]stu tasyai |

vahati ca vapuṣā maheśvaro yāṃ

praṇamata prāṇihitāṃ śivān tāṃ ||     || (fol. 272v10–273r3)

Colophon

iti śrīkālikāpurāṇaṃ samāptaṃ || 88 || 89 || ❁ ||

kāle dyocāraṇavikalite, śuddhanepālaśāke,

māghe māse śaśadharadine, kālikākhyaṃ purāṇaṃ |

śrīpañcamyāṃ dharaṇi,vibudhaś cakrarājaḥ sudhīraḥ

śukle pakṣe vividharacanaṃ lekhayāmāsa kena ||

«According to Kāśināth, kāle dyocāraṇavikalite is a paraphrase of the date 906 given below; he takes kāla- to represent “9” (cf. Apte s.v. kāla 6, “Time considered as one of the nine dravyas by the Vaiśeṣikas), dyo° to represent “0”, and cāraṇa- to represent “6” (with cāraṇa- being an abbreviation for ṣaṭcāraṇa- = ṣaṭcaraṇa- “having six legs, bee”); and Nepāla Śāka would be the same as Nepāla Saṃvat.

But I am not sure, if it is that easy; what about °vikalite (indicating that something is to be subtracted), and should the figure-paraphrasing words in the compound not be given in reverse order?»

saṃ 906 saṃpūrṇṇaṃ || (fol. 273r3–5)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 201/5

Date of Filming 20-02-1972

Exposures 290

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks two exposures of fols. 37v–38r, 65v–66r, 67v, 129v–130r (the first one appears between fols. 127 and 128), 143v–144r, 167v–168r, 173r, three exposure of fols.134v (that folio which has been mentioned in Manuscript Features), 166v–167r, 169v–170r, 172v (the last one appears after fol. 173r) and four exposures of fol. 68r

Catalogued by BK

Date 13-05-2008

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