E 1774-3(44) Ṣaṇmukhīnāmadhāraṇī

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: E 1774/3
Title: Āryamukhī(?)nāmadhāraṇī
Dimensions: 27.6 x 8.2 cm x 220 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Dhāraṇī
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Reel No. E 1774-3

Title Ṣaṇmukhīnāmadhāraṇī

Subject Bauddha; Dhāraṇī

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material paper

State complete

Size 27.6 x 8.2 cm

Folios 1 (fol. 160r4‒fol. 161r4)

Lines per Folio 6

Foliation figures in the middle right-hand margins of the verso

Owner / Deliverer Dharmaratnavajradharya (Kathmandu)

Accession No. E 34242

Manuscript Features

After the colophon of Ṣaṇmukhīnāmadhāraṇī (161r4) there is an incomplete text which starts: oṃ namo bhagavatyai āryyaparṇṇasavarītārāyai || namo ratnatrayāya || namo amitābhāya tathāgatāyārhate samyaksaṃbuddhāya | namo āryyāvalokiteśvarāya bodhisatvāya mahāsatvāya mahākāruṇikāya || namo mahāsthāmaprāptāya bodhisatvāya mahāsatvāya mahākāruṇikāya || etc. (fol. 161r5–v1). Then fol. 162 is missing.

Fol. 163v contains three colophons:

- āryyahemāṃgānāmadhāraṇī samāpta(!) || || || (fol. 163v2–3)

- iti karṇṇajāpānāmadhāraṇī samāpta(!) || || (fol. 163v4–5), see E 1774 3(45)

- āryyagāthādvayadhāraṇī samāpta(!) (fol. 163v6), see E 1774 3(46)


Excerpts

«Beginning:»

❖ oṃ namo bhagavatyai āryyaṣanmukhai(!) || evam mayā śrutam ekasmin samaye bhagavān cchuddhāvāsau(!) parigagaṇatalasu pratiṣṭḥite saptaratnapravibhaktacittre ratnavyūhe mahāmaṇḍalamātre viharati sma ||

(fol. 160r4‒5)


«End:»

idam avocad bhagavānn ātmanās te ca bodhisatvā mahāsatvā bhagavato bhāṣitam abhyanandann iti || ○ ||

(fol. 161r3‒4)


«Colophon:»

āryyaṣat(!)mukhīnāmadhāraṇi samāpta(!) || || ye dharmā<ref>The rest of the stanza is omitted.</ref>

(fol. 161r4)

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Microfilm Details

Reel No. E 1774-3

Date of Filming 08-03-1985

Exposures 213

Used Copy Berlin

Type of Film negative

Catalogued by AN

Date 14-01-2013