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MS. Sansk. e. 85

MSS. Sansk. e.

NOTE: This record has yet to be fully checked.

Mahāsarasvatīsūkta, &c., 19th cent.?

Contents

Nine separate pieces, which, however, all bear on the same subject, the worship of a Tantric deity

Language(s): Sanskrit.

1. [fols. 11v-4v]

The Mahāsarasvatīsūkta, consists of thirty-four verses

Incipit: apārasaṃsārasamudramadhye nimajjato me śaraṇaṃ kim asti | guroḥ kṛpālo kṛpayā vadaitad viśveśapādāṃbujadīrghanauka ǁ 1 ǁ
2. [fols. 4v-6v]

The Mahālakṣmīsūkta, consists of twenty verses

Incipit: śrī ṣṇovāca | mama nayaṃti munayaḥ prakṛtipurāṇaṃ vidyoti yāṃ śrutirahasyavido gṛṇaṃti tām arddhapallavitasaṃkarūpamudrāṃ devīm ananyaśaraṇaḥ śaraṇāṃ prapadye ǁ 1 ǁ
Explicit: iti vi ktā hā kṣml ktaḥ |
3. [fols. 6v-7v]

The Mahākālīsūkta, consists of fifteen verses:

Incipit: Śiva uvāca | suṃdarī tripurā kāmā bhavārii sādhakaḥ priyā | amohā satyavacanā vimohā mohanāśi | amṛtesi ca kalyāṇī kāruṇyā kamalā kalā kalātītā komalāṃtaśuṣkaraṇī viśvanāyikā ǁ 2 ǁ
Explicit: iti srīśivoktamahākālūsūktaṃ |
4. [fols. 7v-15]

The Mahāvidyāmantra in prose

Incipit: śrīrāmajī | uttama sarvavidyānāṃ sarvabhūtavaśaṃkarī | sarvasiddhikarī vidyā mahāsārasvatī pradām | oṃ asya śrīmahāvidyāmaṃtrasya Aghora ṛṣiḥ | paramātmā Rudro devatā anuṣṭub chaṃdaḥ | &c.
Explicit: śubham astu |
5. [fols. 15-17v]

The Tripurasundarīkavaca, consists of forty-five verses

Incipit: śrīgaṇeśā srīpurāyai namaḥ | śṛṇu Tripurasuṃdaryyā rahasyaṃ kāmanāvahaṃ | jagaccintāmaṇir nāma kavacaṃ maṃtravigrahaṃ ǁ 1 ǁ
Explicit: iti Rudrayāmale Tripurasuṃdarīkavacaṃ |
6. [fols. 18-21v]

The Bāladevīpaṭala, consists of sixty verses

Incipit: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ | atha vātapaṭala likhyatai | Kailāsasikharāsīnaṃ devadevaṃ jogadguruṃ | uvāca Pārvatī devī sarveśvaraṃ sadāśivaṃ ǁ 1 ǁ
Explicit: iti Rudrayāmale Iśvarapārvatīśvarasaṃvāde triº pūº paṭº |
7. [fols. 21v-24v]

The Laghustotra, consists of twenty-two most elaborate and ornate verses. It ends:

Explicit: iti śrīlabdhācāryaviracitaṃ Laghustotraṃ |
8. [fols. 25-27v]

The Bālahṛdaya, consists of thirty-nine verses from the Jālasaṃvaramahātantra, an otherwise unknown work. It ends:

Explicit: iti śrījālasaṃvaramahātaṃtre Bālāhṛdayaṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ |

The Nāmāṣṭakasahasraka consists of 219 verses, enumerating the names of Devī and dwelling on the good results of studying the work. The title given above comes from verse 204.

Incipit: oṃ purā Kailāsaśikhare nānārainopacitrite | devadevaṃ mahādevaṃ samāsīnaṃ jagadguruṃ ǁ 1 ǁ
Explicit: etasya paṭhanād devi dharaṇād vā viśeṣataḥ | satyaṃ ca sādhakaḥ satyaṃ sākṣi devaḥ sadāśivaḥ ǁ 219 ǁ

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: + +
Dimensions (binding): 21.0 × 10.5 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

History

Origin: 19th cent.?

probably about a. d. 1840.

Provenance and Acquisition

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1477 (1–9), p. 273

Availability

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Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    Moriz Winternitz and Arthur Berriedale Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1905), no. 1477 (1–9), p. 273

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