A 21-20(2) Hitopadeśa

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 21/20
Title: Kāvyālaṅkāravṛtti
Dimensions: 37 x 4.5 cm x 64 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Maithili
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Alaṅkāra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/1585
Remarks:

Reel No. A 21-20(2)

MTM Inventory No. 32490

Title Hitopadeśa

Remarks

Author Nārāyaṇa

Subject Nīti

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material palm-leaf

State incomplete; only fols. 2–3 are available; damaged without loss of text; fols. 2r and 3v are illegible on the microfilm.

Size 37.0 x 4.5 cm

Binding Hole 1, rectangular, in the middle

Folios 2

Lines per Folio 5

Foliation figures in the middle of the right-hand margin on the verso

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 1/1585

Manuscript Features

In this MTM only two folios from the beginning of a MS of Nārāyaṇa’s Hitopadeśa are preserved. Fol. 3v, which is almost totally illegible, ended probably somewhere within stanza 30 (kīṭo ʼpi sumanaḥsaṅgād etc.) of the prastāvanā.

Excerpts

Beginning

.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. || ○ || ⁅asti bhāgīrathītīre pāṭaliputraṃ nāmadheyanagaraṃ |⁆ ... (fol. 2r1; the rest of fol. 2r is very dark and illegible)

-ganagaṇārambho (!) patati na kaṭhinā (!) saṃsaṃbhramā (!) yasya |
tenāmbā yadi sutinī vadha ndhyā (!) kīdṛśī bhavati ||

aparañ ca ||

puṇyatīrthe kṛtaṃ yena tapaḥ kvāpy asti duṣka(2)raṃ |
tasya putro bhaved vasya samṛddho dhārmikaḥ sudhīḥ || (fol. 2v1–2)

End

⁅ḥ paṇḍita¬-⁆ .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ⁅-ma putrāṇ⁆(āṃ || nata) .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ⁅deśena punarjanma kari⁆ .. .. .. .. .. .. .. (fol. 3v1; the rest is illegible)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 21/20

Date of Filming 01-09-1970

Exposures 70

Used Copy Berlin

Type of Film negative

Remarks The two folios of this MS are on exps. 6–8; fol. 3v is microfilmed upside down.

Catalogued by DD

Date 06-06-2004