B 31-10(1) Kramasādhana

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 31/10
Title: Kramasādhana
Dimensions: 28 x 5 cm x 27 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Bauddha; Tantra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 4/122
Remarks:

Reel No. B 31-10 MTM Inventory No.: 35450, 35451

Title Kramasādhana

Author Nāgārjuna

Subject Bauddha Tantra

Language Sanskrit

Reference SSP. p, 29b, no. 1450

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material palm-leaf

State incomplete

Size 28.0 x 5.0 cm

Binding Hole one in the middle of folio.

Folios 27

Lines per Folio 5

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

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 4/122

Manuscript Features

1. Kramasādhana (fols. 2r1–18v4)

2. Pañcakramasādhana (fols. 18v4–41v5)

There are impresses of the seal of Bhim Shumshere dated 1988 [VS] on fols. 2r and 41v.

Upper right-hand part of fols. 18r,18v,19r and 19v are damaged.

Available folios are 2–20, 22, 25–30, 41.

There are two exposures of the fols. 3v–4r, 11v–12r, 17v–18r.

Alphabetical foliation are given in the middle of left-hand margin on the verso.

On the exp. 23b appears a stamp make an impression This book belongs to Pt. Siddhi Harsha .

Excerpts

Beginning

-hāṭavīpradeśeṣu phalapuṣpādilaṃkṛtaṃ |

parvvate vijane sādhyaṃ sarvvasiddhisamuccayaṃ ||

mṛdvāsanaṃ samāsīnaḥ sattvapadyekasaṃsthitaḥ |

dveṣavajrasamādhisthaḥ sthānarakṣā vicintayet ||

daśakrodhān samunmṛjya jvālābhāsūrabhīṣaṇān |

hūṃkārodbhūtabhānusthā†nighrasvā†līḍhapadasthitān | (fol. 2r1–3)

End

evaṃ jñātvā cared jñānī nirvvisarkas tu sarvvakṛt |

prachhannavratam āsādya siddhyate sarvasaṃpada iti ||

prakāśya puṇyaṃ yata(!) prāptaṃ pañca kramam anuttamam |<ref name="ftn1">^{This line is unmetrical.}</ref>

anena krīḍato loke †yuganadvasamāpinā† ||

yuganadvakramaḥ pañca .. .. .. ..sya pra(mā)naṃ sata3 graṃtha7 samāptaś cāyaṃ pañcakramaḥ || ❁ || (fol. 41v2–4)

«Colophon of the Kramasādhana:»

///-śrīkramasādhanaṃ samāptaḥ(!) || ❁ || kṛtir iyaṃ nāgārjjunapādānāṃ || ❁ || (fol. 18v4)

«Colophon of the Pañcakramasādhana:»

kṛtir iyaṃ .. .. .. .. nāgārjunapādānāṃ || ❁ || (fol. 41v4–5)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 31/10

Date of Filming 19-10-1970

Exposures 33

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by MS/RA

Date 30-01-2009

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