C 24-2(2) Nirvāṇatantra

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: C 24/2
Title: Nirvāṇatantra
Dimensions: 35.5 x 13.9 cm x 23 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Tantra
Date:
Acc No.: Kesar 217
Remarks: RN contains 2 texts, see also 34931 Manthānabhairavatantra; C 24/2 B

Reel No. C 24-2

Inventory No. 47872

Title Nirvāṇatantra

Subject Tantra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State complete

Size 35.5 x 13.9 cm

Folios 23

Lines per Folio 8–10

Foliation figures on the verso, in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation ni. taṃ. and in the lower right-hand margin under the word rāmaḥ

Place of Deposit Kaiser Library

Accession No. 217b

Manuscript Features

Excerpts

Beginning

śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ

kailāśaparvate ramye nānāratnopaśobhite

viparītaratāśaktā caṃḍī papracha (!) śaṅkaram

śrīcaṃḍikovāca

nirākāraṃ nirguṇañ ca stutiniṃdāvivarjitam

sunityaṃ sarvakarttāraṃ varṇātītaṃ suniścalaṃ

saṃjñādirahitaṃ śāṃtaṃ kim ākāraṃ pratisthitaṃ (!)

tasmād utpattir deveśa kim ākāreṇa jāyate

śrīśaṃkara uvāca

śṛṇu devi paraṃ tattvaṃ varṇātītāṃ ca vaiṣṇavīṃ

guṇālayāṃ guṇātītāṃ stutinindāvivarjitāṃ

ākārarahitāṃ nityāṃ yasmād rāgādivarjitāṃ

pūjanārthāya deveśi svayam utpattikāriṇīṃ (fol. 1v1–5)

End

iti te kathitaṃ kānte avadhūtasya lakṣaṇaṃ

yena vijñānamātreṇa śivatvaṃ labhate naraḥ ||

śaṭhāya bhaktihīnāya na dātavyaṃ kadācana

gurubhaktivihīnāya tattvaniṃdāparāya ca

idaṃ taṃtraṃ suguptaṃ ca prāṇānte pi kadācana

na śrāvayed abhaktāya siddhihāniḥ prajāyate

kadācid vā svaputrāya svaśiṣyāya mahātmane

śrāvayed bhaktiyuktāya yadi tad yogyatā bhavet

śrutvā gopaya yatnena svayonim iva śailaje

saṃkṣepāt kathitaṃ kiṃcit kim anyat śrotum ichati (!) 30 (fol. 23r6–9, exp. 26b)

Sub-colophons

iti caṃḍikāśaṃkarasaṃvāde nirvāṇataṃtre prathamaḥ paṭalaḥ 1 (fol. 3r1–2)

iti nirvāṇataṃtrte caṃḍikāśaṃkarasaṃvāde trayodaśaḥ paṭalaḥ 13 (fol. 22r3–4)

Colophon

iti śrīnirvāṇataṃtrte caṃḍikāśaṃkarasaṃvāde avadhūtāśramavivaraṇaṃ nāma caturddaśaḥ paṭalaḥ samāptaḥ śubham (fol. 23r9–10, exp. 26b)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. C 24/2b

Date of Filming 21-12-1975

Exposures 28

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks two exposures of fols. 10v­–12r

Catalogued by RT

Date 15-03-2007