A 50-7 Vividhavidyāvicāracaturā
Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: A 50/7
Title: Vividhavidyāvicāracaturā
Dimensions: 34 x 5 cm x 84 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition: complete
Scripts: Maithili
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Dharma(śāstra), incl. didactic portions of the epics, Purāṇas, etc.
Date: LS 372
Acc No.: NAK 1/1536
Remarks:
Reel No. A 50-7
Inventory No. 88910
Title Vividhavidyāvicāracaturā
Remarks connected to a text named Navagrahamakhatulāpuruṣādi- mahādānādikarmapaddhati
Author Bhojadeva
Subject Dharmaśāstra
Language Sanskrit
Text Features ritualistic text
Manuscript Details
Script Maithili
Material palm-leaf
State complete
Size 34.0 x 5.0 cm
Binding Hole 1, rectangular, left of centre
Folios 84 + 2
Lines per Folio 5
Foliation figures in the middle of the left-hand margin of the verso
Scribe Śubhapati
Date of Copying LS 372
Place of Copying Ratnapuranagara
Owner / Deliverer Gadādhara Devapāda
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 1/1536
Manuscript Features
A few folios are slightly damaged by worms.
Exps. 87–88 show two additional folios on which a table of contents is given.
Excerpts
Beginning
❖ oṁ namo nārāyaṇāya || sarvvakāmāvāptaye śāntikapauṣṭikāny ucyante | tatra navagrahamakhas trividhaḥ ayutahomo lakṣahomaḥ koṭihomaś ceti | teṣu śrīkāma āyuṣkāma ārogyakāmaḥ puṣṭikāmaḥ putrakāmo grahapīḍāyām utpātādau ca ○ śāntikāmo bhicārakāmo navagrahamakhākhyam ayutahomaṃ kuryāt | tatra praśaste hani yajamānānukūle daivajñakathite śubhalagnādau kāryautsukye ○ tu lagnaṃ vināpi yajamānānukūle praśaste divase ʼbhijidādau praśaste muhūrtte yajamānaḥ susnātaḥ suprakṣālitapāṇipādaḥ svācānto ʼmbakakā○mo yutahomenāhaṃ yakṣya iti saṅkalpaṃ vidhāya vṛddhiśrāddham ābhyudayikaṃ kṛtvā puṇyāhaṃ bhavanto bruvantv iti prathamaṃ brāhmaṇavācanaṃ kuryāt te brūyuḥ puṇyāhaṃ puṇyāhaṃ puṇyāham iti triḥ śrāvaṇaṃ triḥ prativacanaṃ | svasti bhavanto brūvantv (!) iti dvitīyaṃ (fol. 2r1) vācanaṃ oṁ svastīti prativacanaṃ triḥ ṛddhiṃ bhavanto bruvantv iti tṛtīyaṃ vācanaṃ oṁ ṛddhyatām iti prativacanañ ca triḥ kuryāt |
(fol. 1v1–2r1)
End
hemapātrīṃ śayyāñ cācāryāya dadyāt | tato brāhmaṇānāṃ sahasram aṣṭaśataṃ vā śaktyanusāreṇa bhojayet | ayaṃ mukhyo vidhiḥ | aśaktau durddha(!)saṃkhyair homakajāpakadvārapāṇaiḥ karttavyaḥ | tatrāpy aśaktāv ekāgnividhānena ṛddhivyatirekeṇācārya eva sarvvaṃ karyāt | ayañ ca vidhiḥ pratiṣṭhāyāṃ prāsādo(fol. 84r1)dyānabhūmiṣv api mantraviśeṣeṇa karttavyaḥ |
- prāvṛṭkālasthitaṃ toyam agniṣṭomasamaṃ smṛtam |
- śaratkālasthitaṃ yat syā (!) tad uktaphaladāyakam |
- vājapeyātirātrābhyāṃ hemantaśiśire sthitam |
- aśvamedhasamaṃ prāhur vvasante caiva yat sthitam |
- grīṣme ca sthitaṃ toyaṃ rājasūyād viśiṣyate<ref>The first pāda lacks one syllable to satisfy the metre.</ref> |
- etān mahārājaviśe○ṣadharmmān
- karoti yo dharmmaparaḥ subuddhiḥ |
- sa yāti rudrālayam āśu pūtaḥ
- kalpān anekān divi modate ca ||
- anena lokān samahastapādīn
- bhuktvā parārddhyadvayam aṅganābhiḥ |
- sahai○va viṣṇoḥ paramaṃ padaṃ yat
- prāpnoti tad yogabalena bhūyaḥ ||
(fol. 83v3–84r3)
Colophon
iti mahārājādhirājaparameśvaraśrīmadbhojadevaviracitāyāṃ vividhavidyāvicāracaturābhidhānāyāṃ navagrahamakhatulāpuru○ṣādimahādānādikarmmapaddhatau taḍāgavāpīkūpapratiṣṭhāvidhiḥ parisamāptā ceyam iti || || samastetyādimahārājādhirājavarakumāraśrīmadgadādharadevapādānām ājñayā śrīśubhapatibhir llikhitam idaṃ pustakam iti || lasaṃ 372 śrāvaṇavadi 1 śukre śrīratnapuranagare oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya ||
(fol. 84r3–5)
Microfilm Details
Reel No. A 50/7
Date of Filming 21-10-1970
Exposures 89
Used Copy Berlin
Type of Film negative
Remarks
Catalogued by OH
Date 24-10-2007
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