B 296-2 Rāmāyaṇa

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 296/2
Title: Rāmāyaṇa
Dimensions: 30 x 13 cm x 158 folios
Material: paper?
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Rāmāyaṇa
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 4/700
Remarks:

Reel No. B 296-2 Inventory No. 57434

Title Vālmīkirāmāyaṇa-laṃkākāṇḍa

Author Vālmīki

Subject Rāmāyaṇa

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State incomplete, damaged 126v and missing fols 117v–122r, 136v–137r

Size 31.0 x 13.0 cm

Folios 158

Lines per Folio 12-12

Foliation figures on the verso, in the upper left-hand margin under the marginal title rā.laṃ / laṃ kā and in the lower right-hand margin under the word rāma

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 4/700/4

Manuscript Features

Excerpts

Beginning

oṃ svasti śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ

śrīrāmacaṃdrāya namaḥ

atha yuddhakāṃḍa (!) liṣyate

sasainyeṃ (!) sāgaraṃ (!) tīrṇe (!) rāme daśarathātmaje

a(2)mātyau rāvaṇaḥ śrīmān avravīc chukasāraṇau

samagraṃ durdharaṃ tīrṇaṃ dustaraṃ sāgaraṃ balaṃ

ananyapūrvo rāmeṇa setur baśca (!) sāgare

aśra(3)ddheyam idaṃ karma kṛtaṃ rāmeṇa sāraṇa

sāgare setubaṃdhena saṃśūnyam iva me manaḥ

akathyamānaṃ saṃkhyeyaṃ tan mayā vānaraṃ balaṃ

(4) bhavaṃtau vānaraṃ sainyaṃ praviśyānupalakṣitau (fol. 1v1–4)

End

ārugyam (!) āyuṣyam idaṃ yaśasyaṃ

dhanyaṃ (10) mahadbuddhikaraṃ supuṇyaṃ

śrotavyam etan niyataṃ ca sadbhir

ūrjaskaraṃ buddhikaraṃ ca nityaṃ

ṛṣikṛtam ida (!) divyaṃ hyādikāvyaṃ tri(11)loke

nigaditam idam ārṣaṃ rāmavṛttaṃ parārddhyaṃ

raghukulavarajanmasthāpanaṃ puṇyakīrtter

danutanayanihaṃtur lokanāthasya (12) viṣṇoḥ (fol. 158v9–12)

Colophon

ityārṣe rāmāyaṇe laṃkākāṃḍe abhyūdayikorāmarājyapālanaṃ (!) nāma sarggaḥ samāptaś cāyaṃ laṃkākāṃḍaḥ || (fol. 158v12)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 296/2

Date of Filming 06-06-1972

Exposures 48

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks text begins from exp.3, two exposures of fols. 2v–3r, 66v–67r,

Catalogued by MS

Date 07-12-2006

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