Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 270/10
Title: Māghasnānamāhātmya
Dimensions: 24.2 x 4.3 cm x 175 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Stotra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/1009
Remarks:

Reel No. B 270-10 Inventory No. 97258

Reel No.: B 270/10

Title Māghasnānamāhātmya

Remarks assigned to Vidyāpurāṇa.

Subject Māhātmya

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material paper

State complete

Size 24.2 x 4.5 cm

Binding Hole one in centre-left

Folios 174

Lines per Folio 4

Foliation numbers in right-hand middle margins of verso 

Scribe Gaṃgārāma

Date of Copying NS 777

Owner / Deliverer NAK

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 1/1009

Manuscript Features

Fol. 162 is maintained twice but text is not repeated.

Numbers 99 and 144 are added by a second hand in the verso side of folios 89 and 143 respectively but the text is not interrupted.

MS is dated saṃvat 777 māghakṛṣṇatrayodaśī ādityavāra.

Excerpts

Beginning

❖ oṃ namaḥ ||

nārāyaṇan namaskṛtya narañ caiva narottamam |

deviṃ sarasvatiñ caiva, tato jayam udīrayet ||

(2) dvaipāyanauṣṭhapuṭaniḥsṛtam aprameyaṃ

puṇyaṃ pavitram atha pāpaharaṃ śivaṃ ca |

yo bhārataṃ sama(3)dhigachati vācyamānaṃ,

ki (!) tasya puṣkalajalair abhiṣecanena ||

pārāśaryyavacaḥsarojam ama(4)laṃ gītārthagaṃdhotkaṭaṃ,

nānākhyānakakeśaraṃ harikathāsaṃbodhanodbodhitaṃ |

loke sajja(2r1)naṣaḍpadair aharahaḥ pepīyamānaṃ mudā,

bhūyād bhāratapaṃkajaṃ kalimalapradhvaṃsinaḥ śreyase || (fol. 1v1–2r1)

End

imaṃ mantraṃ (4) samuccāryya, śāntikumbhāmbusecanaṃ |

anena brahmabījena, prabhāvojjvalatejasā |

dūritoghavināśārthaṃ,(!) (1)mantrapūtena siṃjayet (!) |

haviṣyāneṣu (!) bhuṃjīta, māghasnānaphalaṃ labhet ||

labhate sarvvakāmaṃ ca, mucyate sarvvakilviṣā(2)t ||

phalam ekaṃ tyajed yac ca, tatphalaṃ pūrṇṇamādine (!) |

brāhmaṇāya pradātavyaṃ, paścāt prāśanam ārabhe(3)t || (fol. 175r3–175v3)

Colophon

iti śrīvidyāpurāṇe māghasnānamāhātmyaṃ samāptaṃ || ||

saṃvat 777 māghakṛṣṇatrayo(4)daśī, ādityavāra kunhu dhunakā || likhiti, vipra śrīgaṃgārāmana, paśracheyā || (fol. 175v3–4)

Microfilm Details

Reel No.:B 270/10

Date of Filming 30-04-1972

Exposures 178

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks 50v, 51r 60v, 61r, 112v and 113r are double filmed

Catalogued by BK/JU

Date 22-04-2004

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