E 2580-3 E 2581-1 Kālikāpurāṇa
Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: E 2580/3
Title: Kālikāpurāṇa
Dimensions: 51.3 x 5 cm x 326 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Maithili
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Purāṇa
Date: NS 429
Acc No.:
Remarks:
Reel No. E 2580-3
Title Kālikāpurāṇa
Subject Purāṇa
Language Sanskrit
Manuscript Details
Script Maithili
Material palm-leaf
State complete, slightly damaged
Size 51.3 x 5 cm
Binding Hole 1 in the centre
Folios 326
Lines per Folio 5
Foliation Figures in the left margin of the verso side.
Scribe Viśvanātha, Caturbhujaśarman,
Date of Copying LS 429
Place of Copying Kaṅkapuragrāma
Owner / Deliverer Dharmaratnavajrācārya
Place of Deposite Kathmandu
Manuscript Features
The manuscript is written in several hands, at least by the three scribes mentioned in the colophon. On the whole it is written clearly, though there are numerous scribal errors. Those have been carefully corrected in what seems to be another, but not necessarily a much later hand. Marginal additions, alterations or corrections of the text are found on almost every page. The corrected portion of text is either marked with little strokes or wiped off.
The manuscript is complete and relatively well preserved. However, on some folios the writing is rubbed off or faded. In places the writing, including the foliation, has been reapplied by a later hand.
Excerpts
Beginning
oṃ namaś caṇḍikāyai ||
yad yogibhir bbhavabhayārttivināśayogyam
āsādya vanditam atīvaviviktacittaiḥ |
tad vaḥ punā(tu) haripādasarojayugmam
āvirbbhava(t) kramavilaṃghitabhūrbbhuvaḥsvaḥ ||
sā pātu vaḥ sakalayogijanasya citte
vidyātamisrataraṇir bbhavamuktihetuḥ |
yā cānyajantunivahasya vimohanīti
māyāvidher jjagati<ref name="ftn1">ac: jjanuṣi</ref> śuddhasubuddhihantrī ||
īśvaraṃ jagatām ādyaṃ praṇamya puruṣottamam |
nityajñānamayam vakṣye purāṇam kālikāhvayaṃ
mārkkaṇḍeyaṃ muniśreṣṭham sthitam himadharāntike |
munayaḥ paripapracchu(!) praṇamya kamaṭhādayaḥ ||
bhagavan samyag ākhyātaṃ sarvvaśāstrāṇi tatvataḥ |
vedān sarvvāṃs tathā sāṅgān sārabhūtaṃ pramathyate |
sarvvavedeṣu śāstreṣu yo yo naḥ saṃśayo mahān |
sa sa cchinnas tvayā brahman savitreva tamaścayaḥ |
jaivātṛkāgryaṃ(!) bhavataḥ prasādā(!) dvijasattamam(!) |
niḥsaṃśayā vayaṃ jātā vede śāstre ca sarvvataḥ | (fol. 1v1-4)
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«Sub-Colophons»
iti kālikāpurāṇe kāmaprādurbbhāve prathamo dhyāyaḥ || 1 || (fol. 4r5)
iti kālikāpurāṇe dvitīyo dhyāyaḥ || 2 || (fol. 7r2)
iti kālikāpurāṇe tṛtīyo dhyāyaḥ || ○ || (fol. 9r4)
iti kālikāpurāṇe caturtho dhyāyaḥ || || (fol. 11r3)
iti kālikāpurāṇe || 5 || (fol. 14r4)
iti kālikāpurāṇe || 10 || (fol. 18r4)
iti kālikāpurāṇe || 20 || (fol. 62v3)
iti kālikāpurāṇe ādisṛṣṭiḥ || 25 || (fol. 88v3)
iti kālikāpurāṇe pāriṣadotpattiḥ || 30 || (fol. 101v5)
iti kālikāpurāṇe || 40 || (fol. 150v2)
iti kālikāpurāṇe || || (fol. 199v3)<ref name="ftn2">end of the 50th adhyāya</ref>
iti kālikāpurāṇe kāme+⁅rītantram⁆ || 60 || (fol. 254v1)
iti kālikāpurāṇe tripurākavacaḥ || || (fol. 298v1)
iti kālikāpurāṇe puṣyābhiṣekaḥ || 78 || (fol. 313v4-5)
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End
tasmān naivādhiko nya(!) sti kṛtakṛtyo vicakṣaṇaḥ |
sa sukhī balavāṃl loke dīrghāyur api jāyate |
yo lokam īśaḥ satataṃ bibhartti
yaḥ pālayaty antakaras tathānte
idaṃ samastaṃ trayam atra śaśvat
tanīya(!)rūpañ ca namo nta(!) tasmai ||
pradhānapuruṣau yasya prapañcau yogināṃ hṛdi |
yaḥ purāṇādhipo viṣṇuḥ prasīdatu sanātanaḥ ||
yo hetu(!) ca yaḥ puruṣaḥ purāṇaḥ
sanātanaḥ śāśvata īśvaraḥ paraḥ |
purāṇakṛd vedapurāṇakebhyaḥ
paraś ca tan naumi purāṇaśekharaḥ ||
iti sakalajagad bibhartti jā(!) sā mapū(!)ripumohakarī namo stu tasyai |
vahati ca hara(!) śivāsvarūpā ||
Colophon
iti kālikāpurāṇaṃ sampūrṇṇam iti || la sam 429 caitrakṛṣṇāṣṭamyāṃ budhe kaṅkapuragrāma likhitaiṣā pustī śrīviśvanāthaśrī⁅vyaya⁆‥ndraśrīcaturbbhujaśarmmabhir mmilitveti <ref name="ftn3">The scribe has written the phrase beginning with "śrīviśvanātha" into the write margin when he lacked space on the page.</ref>
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Microfilm Details
Reel No. E 2580/3-E 2581/1
Date of Filming 10-09-1990
Exposures 354
Used Copy Berlin
Type of Film positive
Remarks Folios 1 to 63 have been filmed on A 2580, folios 55 to 336
on A 2581. About 25 folios have been filmed twice.
Catalogued by AM
Date 21-09-2006