B 299-3 Rāmāyaṇa

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 299/3
Title: Rāmāyaṇa
Dimensions: 50.4 x 12.5 cm x 151 folios
Material: paper?
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Rāmāyaṇa
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 4/1559
Remarks: 1; 57351-4=se

Reel No. B 299-3 Inventory No. 57351

Title Vālmīkirāmāyaṇa (Ādikāṇḍa)

Author Vālmīki

Subject Rāmāyaṇa

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material paper

State complete

Size 50.0 x 12.0 cm

Folios 151 + 1 = 152

Lines per Folio 7

Foliation figures in upper left-hand and lower right-hand margin on the verso

Scribe Rāmānanda

Date of Copying NS 816

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 4/1559

Manuscript Features

First two exposures are faded and illegible.

Excerpts

Beginning

❖ oṃ namaḥ śrīvighneśvarāya || 

śrīrāma rāmacandrāya namaḥ ||

kūjaṃtaṃ rāmarāmeti madhuraṃ madhurākṣaraṃ ||

āruhya kavitāśākhāṃ, vande vālmī(2)kikokilaṃ ||

jayati laghuvaṃśatilakaḥ (!)

kauśalyāhṛdayanandano rāmaḥ ||

daśavadananidhanakālī (!) 

dāśarathiḥ puṇḍarīkākṣaḥ ||

namas ta(3)smai munīśāya, suvratāya tapasvine ||

śāntāya vītarāgāya, tasmai jñānātmane namaḥ || (fol. 1v1–3)

End

paśyema yuvarājan tam a(4)bhiṣiktan tavājñayā ||

sa rājavaryyātmajam ātmavantaṃ,

guṇābhirāmaṃ naralokakāntaṃ ||

rāmantu devārhasi lokanāthaṃ,

yathābhiṣiktaṃ (5) yuvarājam urvyāṃ || || pā○ || 

manokūlaṃ kuru lokanāthaṃ-m

ihābhiṣiktaṃ yuvarājam ūrvyām || 79 || (fol. 151r3–5)

Colophon

|| || ❁ || || ityārṣe rāmāyaṇe (6) vālmīkīye caturvviṃśatisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ ādikāṇḍe rāmapraśaṃsonāma sarggaḥ || śrīādikāṇḍaṃ samāptaṃ || || śubhaṃ || ❁ || (7) || saṃvat 816 jyeṣṭhamāse kṛṣṇapakṣe ṣaṣṭhmyāṃ (!) tithau asmin divase amuṃ pustakaṃ rāmānandaḥ alikhat || || śrīsarasvatyai namaḥ || (fol. 151r5–7)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 299/3

Date of Filming 06-08-1972

Exposures 156

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by JU/MS

Date 21-10-2005

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