A 560-8 Mahābhāṣya
Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: A 560/8
Title: Mahābhāṣya
Dimensions: 26.5 x 9 cm x 40 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Vyākaraṇa
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 5/6992
Remarks: folio number uncertain;
Reel No. A 560-8
Inventory No. 31588
Title Mahābhāṣyapradīpa
Remarks The text is often referred to simply as Bhāṣyapradīpa.
Author Kaiyyaṭa
Subject Vyākaraṇa
Language Sanskrit
Manuscript Details
Script Devanagari
Material paper
State incomplete and partially broken on the sides; some pages are eaten by insects on the sides, but the main text is intact.
Size 26.5 x 9.0 cm
Folios 40; the available folios are 1, 43, 46 and 46–82.
Lines per Folio 9–10
Foliation figures on the verso, in the upper left margin under the marginal titles kai. ṭa., kai. ṭa, kai. ya. and in the lower right margins under the word rāma
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 5/6992
Manuscript Features
The commentary starts from the middle of Mahābhāṣya 1.2.3.73 (fol. 1v) and ends with 1.4.4.110 (fol. 82v). The last part of 1.3.1.1 up to the middle of 1.4.2.13 (fol. 43) is missing. From the last part of 1.4.2.13 up to the beginning of 1.4.2.19 is also lost. The text then continues from the last part of 1.4.2.19 (fol. 46r) up to 1.4.4.110 (fol. 82v).
There are two folios numbered 46 in the same hand. The first one is a running folio of this manuscript. The second one contains the commentary on Mahābhāṣya 1.2.3.64 (last part) to 1.2.3.68 (first part ).
In the upper left of fol. 55v the page number is given by mistake as 54, but in the lower right 55 is written.
The scribe uses another ink at the beginning of a word cited from the Mahābhāṣya to make it distinct.
Even though 1 is written at the bottom of the fol. 1v, the manuscript begins with the end of the second pāda of the first adhyāya and the start of the third pāda, which shows that the manuscript is not complete at the beginning. The upper left of the folio was eaten by an insect, so there is no page number there.
Above fol. 43r is a page inserted from another book. On this page is written: iti śrīraghuvaṃśe mahākāvye kālidāsakṛtau naṃdinīvarapradāno(!) nāmaḥ(!) dvitīyasargaḥ ||. In the lower right of the page there are two stamps of the Nepal Rastriya Pustakalaya, and many expressions like śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ and śrīramaḥ appear elsewhere.
Excerpts
Beginning
///tmakatvam akṣāmyan āha || atham (!) iti | striyaṃ<ti> eveti <puṃsā> yady api tatra vṛṣabhayāpi saṃbhavaḥ || tathāpi mallagrāmavat bhūyastvāt strībhir vyapadeśo bhavati | (fol. 1v1–2)
=== End<ref name="ftn1">On the last page of the manuscript, after the end of the main text, there are three verses written in larger handwriting, some letters of which are inked over. These verses are:
bhāvanā yadi bhavet phaladātrī māmakaṃ nagaram eva hi kāśi ||
vyāpako yadi bhavet paramātmā tārakaṃ kim iha nopadiśiha || 1 ||
rāmāya rāmabhadrāya rāmacandrāya vedhase ||
raghunāthāya nāthāya sā tāṃ pāyataye namaḥ || 2 ||
rāmarāmeti rāmeti rame rāme manorame ||
sahasranāma tat tulyaṃ rāmanāmavarānane || 3 ||</ref>===
yathā padanairaṃtayo (!) saṃhitāvyavahāraḥ | tathaikapadyepi vaṇaniraṃtarye (!) avasānaśabdopi vidhipradeśeṣu bhāvasādhanaḥ karaṇasādhano vāśrayiṣyata iti nārthaḥ saṃjñādvayavidhānena tena vināpāṣṭasya (!) siddhatvāt || || iti śrīmanmahopādhyāyajayyaṭaputrakayyaṭakṛte bhāṣyapradīpe prathamasyādhyāyasya caturthe pāde caturtham āhnikaṃ || pādaś ca samāptaḥ || || || || śubham astu || || śrīkālabhairavāya namaḥ || || śrīmahālakṣmīnṛsīṃhāyai (!) namaḥ || || ❁ || || rāma || || ❁ || ❁ || || ❁ || || (fol. 82v1–4)
Microfilm Details
Reel No. A 560/8
Date of Filming 10-05-1973
Exposures 41
Used Copy Kathmandu
Type of Film positive
Remarks The exposures are slightly dark.
The lower right corners of fols. 80r and 81v were folded, blocking some letters of fol. 80r.
Catalogued by RT
Date 24-09-2002
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