कुब्जिकाग्नियज्ञाविधि

MTM, MTM 1: कुब्जिकाग्नियज्ञाविधि: Start: ॐ नम:॥श्रीगणेशायनम:॥=ॐ नम:॥ कुब्जिकायैनम:॥कुब्जिकाग्नियज्ञविधिर्=लिख्यते॥ (fol 2b, digital image 002); End: इति=श्रीकुब्जिकाग्नियज्ञविधि:=समाप्त॥ (fol 36a, digital image 036); थ्व=ते रात्रिया यज्ञ कर्म्मविधि:॥ (fol 36a, digital image 036); MTM 2: तिरस्किराणी उप्दोहणविधि(!), Sanskrit, Devanagari, Start: ॐ श्रीनम: श्रीगणगुरुभ्य:॥॥धकिं हुते विधि चोये॥  (fol 44a, digital image 044), End: इति तिरस्किराणी= उपदोहरण विधि॥॥शुभ्म्॥ (fol 50a, digital image 050); MTM 3: चक्रदानविधि:॥Sanskrit, Devanagari; Start: श्रीगणेशाय नम:॥॥अथश्री=चक्रदानविधि:॥ (fol 51a, digital image 051), End: इति श्रीचक्रदानं समाप्तम्॥ (fol 53a, digital image 053); Colophon: श्री हयग्रीवानन्दस्येदं पुस्तकं॥ (fol 53a, digital image 053); MTM4: यन्त्रसंस्कारविधि, Sanskrit, Devanagari, Start: अथ यन्त्रसंस्कारविधि॥ (fol 53a, digital image 053), End: इ=ति यंत्रसंस्कार विधि॥ (fol 54a, digital image 054); Colophon: शक्तिचेद्वलिं दद्यात्॥॥ (fol 54a, digital image 054); MTM 5: गम्भारीया गुण, Sanskrit, Devanagari कुब्जिकाग्निहोमकुण्ड layout (fol 55, digital image 055); MTM 6: पवित्र चिये विधि (fol 56a, digital image 056),  Sanskrit with Newari Instructions, Devanagari; End: ईति पवित्र चिये विधि शुभम्भूयात्॥ (fol 56b, digital image 056), crowfeet additions (fol 2, digital image 002), Instructions highlighted with red ink, marginal additions (fol 4b, digital image 004), Instructions in Newari on a few instances (fol 34b, digital image 034); mostly vertical writing, multiple hands, multiple inks, deletions by Haritāla (fol 23, digital image 023), Kuṭākṣara (fol 23, digital image 023), stamp seen on fol 1 (digital image 001). Calendar: C 900 (Nepal Samvat). Extent and format of original material: 110 folios. Physical characteristics: Thyāsaphū (folded book), Nepali handmade lokta paper, Haritāla (A mixture of arsenic suphilde, Manaśilā and rice flour glue) on one side, slight fungal damage; 9.5cm x 21cm. Author(s) of original material: हयग्रीवानन्द. Additional script information: Kuṭākṣara is a vertical syllabogram based on Newari scripts, mostly used to write cryptic formulae for esoteric practice. Kuṭākṣara is unique to Nepal, although as Vījamantra they were familiar to Śaiva and Śākta scholars in India. The project team are not aware of the existence of such script outside, except disseminated from Nepal to east Asia, China and Japan.