Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: C 19/7
Title: Mahākālasaṃhitā
Dimensions: 30.5 x 11.5 cm x 106 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Tantra
Date:
Acc No.: Kesar 180
Remarks: folio number uncertain;

Reel No. C 19-7 Inventory No. 32693

Reel No.: C 19/7

Title Mahākālasaṃhitā

Author attributed to Ādinātha

Subject Tantra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State incomplete, available folios: 15–19, 30–56, 1–13 and 70–129

Size 30.5 x 11.5 cm

Folios 106

Lines per Folio 7–10

Foliation in fols. 1–13, figures in the upper left-hand margins and the word rāma on the lower right-hand margins on the verso

on the rest of the filios, figures in the upper left-hand margin and in the lower right-hand margins on the verso

Place of Deposit Kaisher Library

Accession No. 180

Manuscript Features

The text in this manuscript is not continuous. Different portions of the manuscript are available.

On the last folio (on exp. 113b) there is a list of various names of Kālī.

Excerpts

Beginning

-rī bhavet ||

paṃcamīvyomakūṭākhyā sarvvakāmaphalapradā ||

dhyānaḥ ||

kathayāmi dhyānam asyā ṣadvidhā yāsyam uttamaṃ ||

udyat sahasramārttaṇḍabiṃbakāṃtikarojjvalāṃ ||

trinetrāṃ pīnavakṣojāṃ padmāsanopari sthitāṃ ||

sarvānaraṇasaṃpūrṇāṃ pūrṇayauvanaśālinīṃ || (exp. 4b1–3)

End

paṃcapaṃcāśachatī (!) ca kukuṭyāḥ prathamākṣare ||

śeṣe saṃkaṭam ity asya pūrṇātvīṣu (!) śatī tathā ||

tvāhā (!) dvayasyādime ʼrbhye (!) sadā paṃcāśad īritā || phaṭ (exp. 112t3–4)

«Sub-colophons:»

iti śrīmahākālasaṃhitāyāṃ dviśatādhikadvisaptatitamaḥ paṭalaḥ || 272 || || (exp. 34b9)

iti śrīmahākālasaṃhitāyāṃ śrīguhyakālyā ekākṣarādyayutākṣarīmantram || || (exp. 84b4–5)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. C 19/7

Date of Filming 02-12-1975

Exposures 115

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks Exps. 43, 44 and 49, 50 are two exposures of the same folios.

Catalogued by RT

Date 27-11-2006

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