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References. Aufrecht mentions only our ms. under Tripurarcanapaddhati in his Catalogus Catalogorum ii, 5o.
Tantra
त्रिपुरसुन्दरीपूजाविधि
No. 192
Size— 876 in. by 4 in.
Extent.— 15 leaves; to lines to a page ; 25 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper; Devanagari characters; hand-writing good; two lines in red ink on each border; benedictory phrases, marks of punctuation, topics and the page number on fol. 1, in red ink ; numbers 4, 5, 6 and 7, 8 are repeated on leaves (instead of numbering them 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 ). Paper is very old, worn out, musty and repaired.
A treatise on the worship of goddess Tripurasundari. Age.— Appears to be fairly old.
Author.— Anonymous.
Begins.— fol. rb
Tripurasundarīpūjāvidhi
979. 1891-95.
श्रीगणेशाय नमः ॥ ऐं नमः ॥
श्रीविद्यासिद्धिविद्या च मातंगी भुवनेश्वरी । वाराही पंच रत्नानि देवानामपि दुर्लभं ॥ १ ॥
ॐ ऐं ह्रीं श्रीं हुं हुं बदवदनाग्वादिनी वागेश्वरी नमः । सारस्वत मंत्रलक्ष ३ श्वेत पुष्पपूजाश्वेतध्यानेन सिद्धि || Ends — fol. rob
न मंत्रो नो यंत्रं तदपि च न जाने स्तवमहो । न चाह्वानं ध्यानं तदपि च न जाने तव वचः । न जाने मुद्रां ते तदपि च न जीवो विलसित । परं जाने मातस्त्वद्वनुशरणं कष्टहरणं ॥ ३ ॥ इति त्रिपुरसुंदरी संक्षेपतः विधिर्ज्ञातव्या ॥ म
References.— ( 1 ) Mss. - A- Aufrecht's Catalogus Catalogorum
`i, 2370; ii, 50° ; iii, 51.
B- Descriptive Catalogues :Burnell's Cat. of Tanjore Mss. p. 197.
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