A 18-19 Nāgarasarvasva
Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: A 18/19
Title: Kāmaśāstra
Dimensions: 33 x 5 cm x 18 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Kāmaśāstra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 4/1619
Remarks:
Reel No. A 18/19
Inventory No. 29978
Title Nāgarasarvasva
Remarks In the Preliminary List of Manuscripts the title was given as Kāmaśāstra
The title is known from A 18/16. In both texts, the 17th pariccheda is Vāmācaritaprakāśa.
Author Padmaśrījñāna
Subject Kāmaśāstra
Language Sanskrit, Newari
Manuscript Details
Script Newari
Material palm leaf
State incomplete, damaged at margins writing partly rubbed off
Size 32.3 x 5.0 cm
Binding Hole
Folios 19
Lines per Folio 6
Foliation figures in right margin and letters in left margin
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 4/1619
Manuscript Features
The available folios are 61v, 62r–60v, 57v–55r, 55v–53r, 53v–54r, 54v–56r, 56v–58r, 58v–59r, 59v–63v, 64r– ?(ślokas 167–168), ?(ślokas 169–173) – 63r, 62v–?(ślokas 158–159), ?– 60r, 61r–48v, 48r–50r, 50v–51r, 51v–52r, 52v–49r, 49v.
Most folio numbers are not clear; they are reconstructed according to śloka numbers.
This incomplete manuscript contains folios 48 to 64 bearing ślokas numbers 206 to 311 and paricchedas 14 to 18. Ślokas numbers 206–210 are from pariccheda 13. The last śloka (no. 311) is accomponied by a Newari translation. The colophon is missing. There are two dispersed folios bearing śloka numbers 158–159 and 167–173 the content of which is not clear.
Excerpts
Beginning
na goḍadesa baṃgadesayā bharīpanisa sabhāva thathyaṃ || 206 ||
nakhadaśanapade viraktacittaḥ
praharaśa cuṃvanaratāśca lāṭanāryaḥ |
taditara vanitājanasya ceṣṭāṃ
prabhavati paścimadeśa sundarīṣṭa ||(2)
lusi ghāra vā ghāra lāca mayeva dāye cuvarape yeva lāṭadeśayā bha○rīpanisa sabhāva thathyaṃ | thvayā viparīta lisiṃ ghāra vā ghāra lācake yeva dāye cuvarape mayeva paścimadesayā bhiṃgva bha(3)rīpanisa sabhāva thathyaṃ || (fol.48r1–3)
End
|| 311 || rājā dharmaratostu nirjitaripuḥ ṣaḍvargavajrovaśī,
niḥkleśāḥ(5) … lānvitāḥ |
anyonya priyatā prasannamanasaḥ sarvatra santu prajā,
nityaṃ tiṣṭhatu sarvvasatva nicayaiḥ saṃpūritā medinī ||
thva sāstra dvayakā (6) /// khaṃ thajura satru dvāko jitarapo khaṃ thajura khaḍvararga dvāko var(ta)rapātvoṃ thajura prajā samastasyaṃ jana rājātvaṃ ja(na) vaśa juraṃ dhakaṃ bhārapayakaṃ vyahara(pā) (fol. 64r4–6)
Sub–Colophons
|| 211 || babhāśini caturdaśa padicchedaḥ || ||(48v5 )
|| 253 || ligapraveśa paṭa || paṃcadaḥparicchedaḥ || || (55r3)
|| 282 || kaṭaśapāripāṭināma ṣoḍasaṃ paricchedaḥ || o || (59v6)
|| 297 || vāmācaritaprakāśonāma saptadaśaḥ paricchedaḥ || (62r5)
Microfilm Details
Reel No. A 18/19
Date of Filming 28-08-1970
Exposures 23
Used Copy Kathmandu
Type of Film positive
Remarks two exposures of fols. 59v and 63v
Catalogued by KT/KM
Date 02-10-2002
