A 31-16 Yavanajātaka
Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: A 31/16
Title: Yavanajātaka
Dimensions: 54 x 4.5 cm x 102 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Jyotiṣa
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/1180
Remarks:
Reel No. A 31-16
Inventory No. 83000
Title Yavanajātaka
Author Sphujidhvaja
Subject Jyotiṣa
Language Sanskrit
Text Features Text on horoscopy, first translated from a Greek source by Yavaneśvara in Śaka 71 (A.D. 149/150), then versified in the upajāti metre by Sphujidhvaja in Śaka 191 (A.D. 269/270).
Reference Pingree 1978
Manuscript Details
Script Newari
Material palm-leaf
State incomplete, damaged
Size 54.0 x 4.5 cm
Binding Hole 2
Folios 101
Lines per Folio 5
Foliation letters in the middle of the left-hand margin and figures in the middle of the right-hand margin of the verso
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 1/1180
Used for edition yes
Manuscript Features
Fols. 1 and 102 are missing. The writing on fol. 2v has darkened considerably towards the margins and has been partly rubbed off, equally on fols. 61v; 62r; and 89v.
Many fols. are slightly worm-eaten. The following fols. are damaged at the margins: 2–8; 39–40; 68; 103. Fol. 79 has broken in two, the two parts have been microfilmed on exp. 51–52 and 83–84 respectively.
There is an extra fol. serving as a cover leaf on exp. 2.
This MS has been described in BSP vol. 1 p. 162 ff. no. 335.
Excerpts
Beginning
/// ++++++⁅kavarṇarūpaiḥ⁆ ⁅samā⁆..⁅bhadvādaśabhir gṛ⁆〇hākhyaiḥ ||
(pra)dakṣiṇottānasamanvitan tat saptagrahendraprabhavan tri..ndhiḥ
kramānuṣaṅgena nabhastalantā jala⟪..⟫ñ ca pa(śca)〇bhisadārddhadṛ(śyam) ||
… vikalpāḥ ||
ādyaḥ smṛto meṣasamānamūrttiḥ kālasya mūrddhā ⁅ga⁆di⁅ta⁆〇ḥ purāṇaiḥ |
so jāvikākandarasñcarādristenāgnidhātvākararatnibhūmiḥ ||
vṛṣākṛtis tu ⁅pra⁆thito dvitīyaḥ sa va〇ktrakaṇṭhāyatanam vidhātuḥ |
vanādvi….dvipago⁅ku⁆lānā(ṃ) kṛṣī⁅valānām adhi……..
(fol. 2r1–2)
Extracts
mṛgārddhapū⁅r⁆vo makaro mbugārddho jānudvayo dveśam usanti dhātu |
nadīvanāraṇyaparo dya〇nūpasvabhṛtyavāso daśamaḥ pṛ⁅thivya⁆ṃ (!) ||
skandhe tu rikta (!) puruṣasya kumbho jaṃghe tam ⁅e⁆kādaśam āhur asya |
tasyo〇dakādhānakusasyapakṣistrīsoṇḍikadyūtaniveśadeśāḥ ||
jalā (!) tu mīnadvayam a(ntya)rāśiḥ ⁅kā⁆lasya pādau vihitāv ariṣṭaiḥ |
sa puṇyadevadvijatīrthabhūmiḥ (!) nadīsamudrāmbucarādhi〇vāsaḥ ||
ity eṣa sorvītalamaṇḍalasya sraṣṭuṃ (!) nnirukto ṅgavibhāgacakraḥ |
dehāṅgabhāgeṣu nṛṇāṃ yato yam a〇nyonyacihnāṅkaguṇaprasaṅgaḥ ||
ye saṅgrahe digjanajātibhedaḥ proktaḥ purāṇaiḥ kramaso ++sya |
te rāśibhūmyaṅgatadīyabhūmiceṣṭhā (!) svabhāvair niyater (!) vidhāryāḥ ||
idaṃ hi sasthā〇varajaṅgamākhyaṃ jagad ravīndvātmakam āhur ādyāḥ |
tasyodbhavo trāpacayaś ca dṛṣṭo bhamaṇḍale tena tadātma〇kaṃ tat ||
tasyārddham ārkka (!) vihitaṃ maghādi sarppādi śāśāṅkam ato parārddhaṃ |
krameṇa sūryā (!) pra++++(man tu) kṣetrāṇi candrāṇi tathotkrameṇa ||
ebhyo pi sāvitram uśanti sarvam aujaṃ (!) śa〇śāṅkaprabhavan tu yugmaṃ |
tat sarvam ārkaṃ puruṣākhyam ugraṃ strīsaṃjñakaṃ mārdavam aindravan (!) tu ||
(fol. 2v1–4)
End
+++++++….sākhyoviśvātmako yaṃ vihito vika〇lpaḥ ||
tapobhir ugradvibhir (!) aśvinau tu pravāpatuḥ śāstram idaṃ yato (t)kāt |
ato śvayugbhāg vidadhau vi⟨da⟩dhātā śīrṣo(!)dikālarkṣaśarīracakraṃ ||
iti svabhāṣā racaṇābhi⁅guptāṃ viṣṇugraharkṣe⁆ …………
⁅mahīpamukhyair anudṛṣṭatattvāt⁆ horārtharatnākaravāksamudrā ||
sūryaprasā〇..gatatatvadṛṣṭir lokānubhāvāya vacobhir ādhyaiḥ |
idaṃ babhāṣe niravadyavākyo horārthasāstra (!) yavane〇śvaraḥ prāk ||
sphujidhvajo nāma babhūva rājā ya indravajrābhir idañ cakāra |
nārāyaṇā⁅ṅke⁆ndumayādi dṛṣṭā (!) kṛtsnāñ (!) catubhir (!) matimāṃ sahasrair iti || ○ ||
(fol. 103r1–3)
Sub-colophons
yava〇najātake balavidhiḥ || ○ || (fol. 5v2)
yavanajātake mi〇trāmitravidhi (!) || ○ || (fol. 6r3)
yavanajātake grahasvarūpa (!) prathama (!) || ○ || (fol. 7v2)
…
yātrālagnaphalaḥ || ○ || (fol. 95r3)
vāravidhi (!) || ○ || (fol. 95v3)
yā〇trāsandarśanavidhiḥ || ○ || (fol. 98v3)
Colophon
yavanajātake ho+〇++ samāptaḥ || ○ || upendravajrāvṛtta⟪…………….⟫ || ○ ||
(fol. 102r3)
Microfilm Details
Reel No. A 31/16
Date of Filming 13-09-1970
Exposures 108
Used Copy Berlin
Type of Film negative
Remarks a few fols. have been microfilmed twice
Catalogued by OH
Date 15-12-2005
Bibliographie
David Pingree: The Yavanajātaka of Sphujidhvaja; edited, translated, and commented on by David Pingree. Cambridge and London, 1978.
