A 469-6 Acyutāṣṭakavyākhyā
Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: A 469/6
Title: Acyutāṣṭakavyākhyā
Dimensions: 22 x 9.5 cm x 10 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Stotra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 5/3316
Remarks:
Inventory No. 214
Reel No. A 469/6
Inventory No. 214
Title Acyutāṣṭakavyākhyā
Remarks This text is a commentary on the following two anonymous stanzas containing the eight names of Viṣṇu, acyutaṃ keśavaṃ viṣṇuṃ hariṃ satyaṃ janārdanam | haṃsaṃ nārāyaṇaṃ caiva etan nāmāṣṭakaṃ śubham | trisaṃdhyaṃ yaḥ paṭhen nityam pāpaṃ tasya na vidyate.<ref> There are several texts called Acyutāṣṭaka. These particular verses are not found in any recension of the Acyutāṣṭaka, nor could we trace any other source of these verses.</ref> <ref>pāpaṃ tasya na vidyate is restored on the basis of the commentary.</ref>
Author Vācaspati Panta
Subject Stotra
Language Sanskrit
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Manuscript Details
Script Devanagari
Material paper
State complete
Size 22.0 x 9.5 cm
Binding Hole(s)
Folios 10
Lines per Page 7–8
Foliation figures on the verso, in the upper left-hand margin and in the lower right-hand margin
Scribe 5/3316
Date of Copying
Place of Copying
King
Donor
Owner/Deliverer
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 5/3316
Manuscript Features
The text starts with an invocation to Gaṇeśa and is followed by a benedictory stanza, whereupon the purpose of the commentary is stated. Next one and a half verses of the root text to be commented are given, and then the commentary proper starts. The root text seems to come either from some Purāṇa or from some recension of the Mahābhārata, since the commentator addresses Kṛṣṇadvaipāyana(vyāsa) in the second stanza. The commentary is written in complex naiyāyika-style language with compounds and quotes from Purāṇas, the Mahābhārata and Upaniṣads.
There are two exposures of the fols. 9v–10r.
Excerpts
Beginning
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ||
sārasvatapadāmbhojadvandvaṃ vande nirantaram ||
ānandakando yena drāg vidyā bodha⟨ñ⟩[ś] ca labhyate || 1 ||
yāni nāmāni kāruṇyāt kṛṣṇadvaipāyano ʼbhyadhāt ||
phalāṣṭakāya⟪ā atra⟫[[tāny atra]] vyākhyāyaṃte yathāmati || 2 ||
acyutaṃ keśavaṃ viṣṇuṃ hariṃ satyaṃ janārdanam ||
haṃsaṃ nārāyaṇaṃ caiva etan nāmāṣṭakaṃ śubham ||
trisaṃdhyaṃ yaḥ paṭhen nityam iti ||
idaṃ vicāryate ||
atrāʼcyutādayaḥ śabdā dvitīyāṃtāḥ paṭhed iti ||
padārthe yadi yojyante nāmāṣṭakapadaṃ vṛthā || 1 ||
samūhe tu tadarthe syān na pratyekānvayārhatā iti || (fol. 1v1–5)
End
… sūrya utpadyate vā vidyāvidyopādhināśe brahmarūpatā tayoḥ svataḥsiddheti tasmān mokṣarūpāt phalād aṣṭakaṃ naro ʼvidyopādhir nityaṃ paṭhed yaḥ pāthaḥ svāśrayāvyāmohikāṃ vidyām īśvarasyopādhim api nāśayati tasya kiṃ vaktavyaṃ vidyā vināśyāvidyāvinā[[śa]]sāmarthye ||
nārāyaṇaṃ kāraṇamitraśīghraṃ
sampādayātmāʼvagatiṃ mameti ||
na prārthanīyaḥ svasukhānubhūtāv
ātmā niyuktaḥ kvacid apy adṛṣṭaḥ ||
iti nijamatiyogyo darśito dhīravācas-
patidharaṇisureṇa svarthasārhasya siddhyai ||
guruvaracaraṇānāṃ nīladevārūpānāṃ <ref>conj.; nīladevābhidhānāṃ</ref>
vividhavihitasevātatpareṇaiṣa mārgaḥ || (fol. 10r6–10v5)
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Colophon
iti śrīmanmahāmahopādhyāyaśrīnīladevasūrisūnuśrīmanmahāmahopādhyāya-śrīvācaspatisūriviracitāʼcyutāṣṭakavyākhyā samāptā || || || || || || (fol. 10v5–6)
Microfilm Details
Reel No. A 469/6
Date of Filming 25-12-1972
Exposures 15
Used Copy Kathmandu
Type of Film positive
Remarks
Catalogued by BK/RK
Date 25-06-2012
Bibliography
Khatiwoda Rajan
“Acyutāṣṭakavyākhyā by Vācaspati Panta: A testimony to Nepalese Scholarship”. National Archives, Kathmandu 2012 (2068 VS), pp. 90–103. (Abhilekha).
