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5086 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF End: om hrim mum hrim bhuvah hrim suvah hrim svaha || trikonam vilikhetpurvam tadbahirvrttamalikhet | * bhupure vilikhetsadhyam madhyamdrstadisaprati || krsnapuspaih puja || € No. 6900. mahamaristotramantrah . MAHAMARISTOTRAMANTRAH. Pages, 6. Lines, 6 on a page. Begins on fol. 22 a of the Ms. described under No. 602). Complete. This Mantra is in praise of the goddess Mahamari who is probably the same as the Tamil Mariyamman, the presiding deity of small-pox and such other epidemic diseases. Beginning : asya srimahamaristotramantrasya kanakarudra rsih, paktischandah, maha- mari devata ; mam bijam, klim saktih, hraum kilakam, mama mahamari- prasadasiddhayarthe jape viniyogah | End: om jvala jvala jvalamukhi jvalamalini om mahamari atragaccha atra tistha sam saktih sambhavi santam kuru kuru jatana (ganna ) yike hrim ha sa ka ha la hrim madasonite mahamari gramam raksa raksa srim sreyastri tustim karomi svaha || No. 6901. maharghambamantrah . MAHARDHAM BAMANTRAH Pages, 8. Lines, 18 on a page. Begins on fol. 306 of the MS. described under No. 5673, where this has been included in the Amnayamantra-malika la mentioned in the list of other works.