B 13-23 Prahlādacaritra

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 13/23
Title: Prahlādacaritra
Dimensions: 23 x 5 cm x 21 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Kathā
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/1508
Remarks:

Reel No. B 13-23 Inventory No. 53736

Title Prahlādacaritra

Remarks assigned to the Viṣṇupurāṇa

Subject Purāṇa

Language Sanskrit

Text Features

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material palm-leaf

State complete and undamaged

Size 23 x 5 cm

Binding Hole 1 in the centre

Folios 21

Lines per Folio 5

Foliation figures in the left margin of the verso

Date of Copying

Owner / Deliverer NAK

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 1-1508

Manuscript Features

Fol. 6 is missing and fol. 3r is rubbed badly.

Excerpts

Beginning

❖ oṃ namo nārāyaṇāya ||

maitreya uvāca ||

kathitā bhavatā vaṃśā, mānasānāṃ mahāmune,, |

kāraṇaṃ cāsya jagato viṣṇur eva sanātanaḥ||

yac caitad bhagavān āha prahlādaṃ daityasatyamaṃ |

dadāha nāgnir nnāstraiś cakṣuṇṇas tatyāja jīvitaṃ || …

śrotum icchāmi yasyaitac caritaṃ tigmatejasaḥ ||

kinnimittam asau śastrai,r vvikṛto ditijair mmune | (fol. 1r1-4)

«Sub-colophons:»

iti śrīmahāvaiṣṇave, viṣṇupurāne prathame ṃśe prahlādacarite ṣoḍaśo dhyāyaḥ ||

(fol. 2r2-3)

iti śrīviṣṇupurāne prathame ṃśe saptadaśo dhyāyaḥ || (fol. 9v1)

iti śrīviṣṇupurāne prathame ṃśe aṣṭādaśo dhyāyaḥ || (fol. 12r3)

iti śrīviṣṇupurāne prathame ṃśe prahlādacarite ekonaviṃśo dhyāyaḥ|| (fol. 18r4-5)

End

ahorātrakṛtaṃ pāpaṃ prahrāda(!)caritan tataḥ |

śṛṇvata paṭhaśva (!) maitreya, vyapohati na saṃśayaḥ ||

paurṇṇamāsyām amāvāsyām aṣṭamyām athavā paṭhet |

dvādaśyām vā tad āpnoti gopradānaphalaṃ dvija ||

prarlādaṃ (!) sakalāpattve, yathā rakṣitavān hariḥ |

tathā rakṣati yat tasya, śṛṇoti caritaṃ yadā || || (fol. 21r1-3)

Colophon

iti śrīviṣṇupurāne prathame ṃśe prahlādacarite viśatitamo(!) dhyāyaḥ || prahlādacaritraṃ samāptam iti || (fol. 21r4)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 13/23

Date of Filming 21-08-70

Exposures 21

Used Copy Hamburg

Type of Film negative

Remarks

Catalogued by DA

Date Summer 2002

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