Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: C 21/8
Title: Nīlakaṇṭhastava
Dimensions: 33.6 x 5.8 cm x 3 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Stotra
Date: NS 658
Acc No.: Kesar 198
Remarks:

Reel No. C 21-8 Inventory No. 81091

Reel No.: C 21/8

Title Nīlakaṇṭhastava

Remarks ascribed to the Skandapurāṇa

Subject Śaiva Stotra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material palm-leaf

State complete

Size 33.0 x 5.8 cm

Binding Hole 1, circular in the middle

Folios 3

Lines per Folio 8

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

Date of Copying SAM (NS) 658

Place of Deposit Kaiser Library

Accession No. 9/198

Manuscript Features

Excerpts

Beginning

❖ oṃ namaḥ śivāya ||

viśuddharatnād bhuvi kṛṣitāṅgī śilātalahemamaye śuramye |

sukhopaviṣtaṃ madanāṃśanāśanaṃ jagāda vākyaṃ girirājaputrī || ||

devy uvāca ||

bhagavan bhūtabhavye sa(!) govṛṣāṅkitalocana |

tava kaṇṭhe mahādeva bhrājate mbudasannibhaṃ || (fol. 1v1–2)

End

manasā cintitaṃ yac ca yac ca vācā sphuṭād brūtaṃ |

sarvvaṃ sampadyate tasya stavasyāsyānukīrttanāt |

śrutvaitat paramaṃ guhyaṃ ye pi syuḥ pāpayonayaḥ |

striyaḥ śūdrāś ca yepīha rudralokaṃ vrajanti vai || 83 || (fol. 3v6–7)

Colophon

iti skandapurāṇe ʼmṛtamanthane devadevīsamvāde nīlakaṇṭhastava[ḥ] samāptaḥ || || samvat 658 kārttikaśuklasaptamyāṃ tithau likhitam iti || (fol. 3v7–8)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. C 21/8

Date of Filming 15-12-1975

Exposures 7

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by RT

Date 09-01-2007

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