A 1079-3 Skandapurāṇa

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 1079/3
Title: Skandapurāṇa
Dimensions: 68 x 6 cm x 163 folios
Material: paper?
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Maithili
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Purāṇa
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/1693
Remarks: Kāśīkhaṇḍa; = A 8/3

Reel No. A 1079/3

Inventory No. 122198

Title Kāśīkhaṇḍa

Remarks This text is assigned to the Skandapurāṇa.

Author

Subject Purāṇa

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Maithili

Material palm-leaf

State incomplete and damaged

Size 68 x 6 cm

Binding Hole one in the centre

Folios 163

Lines per Folio 5–6

Foliation figures in the left margin of the verso

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 1-1693<ref>Accession no. recorded in reel no. A 8/3 is 1/1696.</ref>

Edited MS No

Manuscript Features

Folios are missing here and there. The available folios are as follows: 20, 46–48, 50–69, 71–77, 81–83, 85–117, 119–179, 270, 272–274, 289–299 and 20 damaged folios without folio numbers. From the fourth line of 299r text is written in Devanāgarī, so the damaged folios placed at the end most fall before 289th folio.

Excerpts

Beginning

kted yaḥ sukṛtaikavāṇīṃ |
jānūrukandaṃ pratimajjanaṃ kiṃ
labheta tadvat sulabhā kim eṣā ||
bhavāntarāvarjitapuṇyarāśīṃ
kṣudrair mmahadbhir hy avagamya kāśīṃ |
prāpyāmi kiṃ mūḍhadhiyo nyato ye
(śriyāsave)///
tat paṇḍito nyatra kutaḥ prayāti
kiṃ yāti kuṣmāṇḍaphalaṃ tv ajāsye ||
kāśīṃ prakāśikṛtapuṇyarāśiṃ
hā śīghra nāśīṃ viṣvajen na yaḥ〇 kiṃ |
nūnaṃ anūnaṃ akṛtaṃ tadīyaṃ
padīya/// (fol. 20r1–2)

brahmā bṛhaspatir yyuto devo garuḍavāhanaḥ |
nandibhṛṅgisamāyukto gauryyā saha vṛṣadhvajaḥ |
mahendramukhyā gīrvvāṇā nāgāḥ pātālavāsinaḥ | etc. (fol. 41r)

End

bahupātakayukto pi tyakto pi tyaktadharmapatho pi vai
na citragutalekhyaḥ syāc citraghaṃṭārccako naraḥ |
yoṣid vā puruṣo vāpi citraghaṃṭāṃ na yo rccayet |
kāśyāṃ vighnasahasrāṇI taṃ sevante pade pade |
caitra śukla dvitī/// (fol. 299v)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 1079/3

Date of Filming 31-07-70

Exposures 167

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks = A 8/3

Catalogued by DA

Date 21-01-03

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