A 386-1 Śiśupālavadha

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 386/1
Title: Śiśupālavadha
Dimensions: 31.6 x 10.2 cm x 72 folios
Material: paper?
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Kāvya
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/1459
Remarks:

Reel No. A 386-1 Inventory No. 65505

Title Śiśupālavadha

Author Māgha

Subject Kāvya

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material paper

State incomplete, available fols.: are: 4–7, 16 and 19–75

Size 31. 6 x 10. 2 cm

Folios 62

Lines per Folio 6

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

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 1/1459

Manuscript Features

The text runs from middle of the 29th stanza of the first chapter (Prathamasargaḥ) up to middle of the10th stanza of the eleventh chapter (Ekādaśasargaḥ)

Excerpts

Beginning

///-pi śuśruṣur ahaṃ garīyasīr

ggiro thavā śreyasi kana (!) tṛpyate ||

gataspṛho py āganaprayojanaṃ,

vaktuṃ vyavasīyate yayā (2) |

tanoti nas tām uditātmagauravo

gurus tavaivāgana eṣa dhṛṣṭatāṃ ||

iti bruvantaṃ tam uvāca sa vratī,

na vācyam itthaṃ puruṣottamas tva(3)yā |

tvam eva sākṣātkaraṇīya ity ataḥ

kam asti kāryyaṃ guru yoginām api || (fol. 4r1–3)

End

anunayam agṛhītvā vyājasuptā parācī

rutam atha kṛkavākastāram (!) ārṇya (!) (5) kāla, (!) |

katham api parivṛtyanindrayāndhā kila strī

mukulitanayanair aśliṣyati (!) prāṇanāthaṃ ||

gatam anugatavīnai(6)r (!) ekatāṃ veṇunādaiḥ

kalam avikalatalam gāthakai (!) bbodhahetoḥ | (fol. 75v4–6)

«Sub-colophon:»

iti śiśupālavadhe (4) mahākāvye, pānarativibhramo nāma daśamasarggaḥ || 10 ||     || (fol. 74v3–4)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 386/1

Date of Filming 10-07-1972

Exposures 67

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks two exposures of fols 4v–5r and 41v–42r

Catalogued by BK

Date 04-09-2006

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