A 299-8 Skandapurāṇa

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 299/8
Title: Skandapurāṇa
Dimensions: 26.5 x 11.5 cm x 35 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Purāṇa
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 5/5390
Remarks:

Reel No. A 299-8 Inventory No. 67362

Title Skandapurāṇa

Remarks The text covered is the Saurasaṃhitā.

Author attributed to Vyāsa

Subject Purāṇa

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State complete

Size 26.5 x 11.5 cm

Folios 35

Lines per Folio 10

Foliation figures in the middle right-hand margin on the verso and the title saurasaṃhitā has been also written in the upper left-hand margin of the same side

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 5/5390

Manuscript Features

At the very beginning of the text, a folio (exp. 2), which is related to the Saurasaṃhitā, appears.

caturdhā kṛtavān viprā yathāpūrvaṃ sanātanaṃ |

(pṛkaṣiṃ) matibhedena ṛgvedaṃ kṛtavān muniḥ |

…

etc.

Excerpts

Beginning

śrīgaṇādhipataye namaḥ ||

oṃ namo [ʼ]haṃpadārthāya tatpadārthasvarūpiṇe |

bhāsakāya namas tasmai bhavāya bhavahāriṇe |

namaḥ sāṃbāya sa(!)rvāya sarvavijñānadāyine |

svabhaktiracitedaṃtāhaṃtārūpāyasākṣiṇe |

samastajagadutpattisthitināmaikahetave |

rudraviṣṇuviriṃcādisvarūpāya namo namaḥ |

pramāṇānām agamyāya svayaṃmānāya kevalaṃ |

namaḥ sakalamānānāṃ mānadānāya śaṃbhave |

varṇāśramasamādhāraniratānāṃ mahātmanāṃ |

sulabhāya vinītānāṃ namaḥ saṃsārahetave |

bhasmasādhananiṣṭhānāṃ bhaktānāṃ bhasmadāyine |

bhasmarūpāya rudrāya namo bhaktipradāyine | (fol. 1v1–5)

End

vidyayā matsamaḥ sākṣāttejasā bhāskaropamaḥ |

śriyā dhanadatulyaḥ syān na hi saṃśayakāraṇaṃ |

ity uktvā bhagavān sūtaḥ sarvajñaḥ sāṃbam īśvaraṃ |

dhyātvā paramaya bhaktyā papāta vivaśo bhṛśam

bālakhilyā mahātmānaṃ vyāsaśiṣyaṃ kṛpākaraṃ |

yathārhaṃ pūjayāmāsuḥ sūtaṃ sumanasaḥ priyāt ||     || (fol. 35r5–8)

Colophon

iti śrīskaṃdapurāṇe saurasaṃhitāyāṃ ṣoḍaśo dhyāyaḥ || || ❁ ||      ||

śrīmahādevāya namaḥ ||

mahādeva śaṃbho mahādeva śaṃbho śivāya namaḥ oṃ 3 (fol. 35r8–9)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 299/8

Date of Filming 12-03-1972

Exposures 38

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks two exposures of fols. 26v–27r

Catalogued by BK/RK

Date 07-05-2008

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