B 34-23 Prakriyā
Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: B 34/23
Title: Śabdakaraṇa
Dimensions: 35 x 4.5 cm x 91 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Vyākaraṇa
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 4/2292
Remarks:
Reel No. B 34/23
Inventory No. 58698
Title (Bālavallabhā) Prakriyā
Remarks wrongly called Śabdakaraṇa by the NAK
Author Sāmbivighnāridatta
Subject Vyākaraṇa
Language Sanskrit
Text Features commentary on the Dhātupāṭha of the Cāndra system of grammar
Manuscript Details
Script Newari
Material palm-leaf
State damaged, incomplete
Size 35.0 x 4.5 cm
Binding Hole 1; rectangular; left of centre
Folios 92
Lines per Folio 5–7
Foliation letters on the left-hand margin and figures on the right-hand margin of the verso
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 4/2292
Manuscript Features
This MS constitutes a commentary on the Dhātupāṭha of the Cāndra system of grammar. The author styles his work a prakriyā for the enlightenment of the unlearned as to the employment of the correct verbal forms. Of these, only three out of the ten moods and tenses of Sanskrit verbs are actually taught, to wit the present (laṭ), simple future (lṛṭ), and imperative forms (loṭ). In the initial portion of the text, many a sūtra of Candragomin is being cited. Moreover, a metrical enumeration of the twenty verbal prepositions (upasarga) is given, which reads as follows:
praparāpasamanvavanirdurabhiḥ vyadhisūdatiniḥ pratipa[r]yapayaḥ |
upa āṅ iti vi[ṃ]śatir eṣa sakhe upasargavidheḥ kavinā kathitaḥ ||
(fol.1v5–2r1)
The sequence of these upasarga-s or prādi-s, however, does not follow the traditional sequence of the Cāndra system as laid down in the Cāndravṛtti on Cān. 1.1.109, but follows exactly the order of the Kātantra system, as preserved in Puruṣottama's Upasargasūtra.
There has been some confusion as to the name of the text, being called Śabdakaraṇa in the NGMPP data base and styled śabdkaraṇā bhuvādayaḥ on the back of fol. 1 by members of the NAK. This obviously stems from a misreading of the words śabvikaraṇā bhuvādayaḥ (samāptā), ending the commentary on the first class of verbs (fol. 61v).
As the MS is incomplete, only the following portions of the original text are extant: the commentary on verb classes I, II and IV; parts of III, V and IX. Classes VI–VIII and X are missing completely, the MS ending in the middle of the commentary on Dhātupāṭha IX.14.
Fols. 14–67; 74–92; and 107 are damaged at the lower margin.
Fols. 82; 93–106; and 108ff. are missing. Fol. 86 has come between fols. 76 and 77.
Exposures 96 below and 97 show another folio, unconnected to this text, being used as a cover leaf for the MS.
Excerpts
Beginning
oṃ namas te varadavajrāya ||
yaḥ saṃsāramahāṃbodhau magnān uddharate janān |
namo mārajite tasmai samyak jñānopadeśine ||
yadvyākaraṇasaṃvittivyaktaśabdārthaniścayāḥ |
sa(2)ntas santi sukhaṃ goṣṭhyāṃ tam vande candragominaṃ ||
jñānāya mandabu〇ddhīnāṃ santoṣāya ca dhīmatāṃ |
sāmbivighnāridattena prakriyā paribhāṣyate ||
kaṇṭhān āśritya bālā(3)nāṃ sādhurūpaprakāśinī |
na kasya tanute modaṃ sadāsau bā〇lavallabhā ||
tad amūṃ prakriyām bālāḥ śṛṇvantu pravidantu ca |
ṣaṇmāsābhyāsayogena boddhuṃ saṃbandhaṃ uttamaṃ (4) ||
yaḥ sarvvajño pi kāyastho lekhādilikhanaṃ prati |
laṭlṛ〇ṭloṭkṛtaprayogān na vādyān kurute hi saḥ ||
ity ⟪a⟫[[e]]bhir bbālabodhāya likhyaṃte kavinā mayā |
aka(5)rmāṇaḥ sakarmāṇo dvikarmāṇo pi dhātavaḥ ||
vidyotayanti dhātūnām arthān prādaya eva ca |
te punar viṅśatiḥ khyātāḥ kavibhiḥ purato dhruvaṃ ||
(fol. 1v1–5)
End
vṝ varaṇe<ref>Cān. Dhātupāṭha IX.12.</ref> || vṝṇāti (!) | vṝ〇ṇīte | vyāpye | vriyate | śānaci | vriyamāṇaḥ | karttari | vṝṇānaḥ | vṝṇānā | vṝṇānaṃ | śatari | vṝṇan | vṝṇanti | vṝṇa(4)t | lṛṭi | variṣyati | varīṣyati | vyāpye | variṣyate | varīṣyate | śāna〇ri<ref>Elsewhere śānaci.</ref> (!) | variṣyamāṇaḥ | varīṣyamāṇaḥ | karttari | vāriṣyamāṇaḥ | caivaṃ | śatari | variṣyan | variṣyanti | variṣyat | l⟪e⟫[[o]](5)ṭi | vṝṇātu | vyāpye | vriyatāṃ | ktaktavatau (!) | vṝtaḥ | vṝtavān | ktvi (!) | varitvā 〇 | varītvā | tumuni | vatuṃ (!) | tavye | vartitavyaḥ | anīyari | varaṇīyaḥ | + +<ref>The wordings ṇici, kartari or hetau would be appropriate.</ref> | vārayati | vyāpye | vāryate | vṝṇāti vā(6)ṭikāṃ svāmī | vṝṇīte brāhmaṇaṃ | nṛpaḥ | prāvṝṇoti (!) gṛhaṃ svāmī | saṃvṝṇoti vadhūḥ | kaṭaṃ vivṝṇoti jano vānīṃ | parivṝṇoti sātimāṃ ///20 || || (graha u-)<ref>Cf. Cān. Dhātupāṭha IX.14.</ref>
(fol. 107v3–6)
Extracts
bhuvādigane ye prasiddhā dhātavo dṛṣṭās te mayā likhitāḥ | śabvika(2)raṇā bhuvādayaḥ samāptā (!) || || (fol. 61v1–2)
lugvikaraṇā adādiganaprasiddhā dhātavo likhitāḥ | adayaḥ (!) samāptā || (fol. 77r1)
divādigaṇa(6)prasiddhā dhātavaḥ śyavikaraṇā likhitāḥ |
divādigaṇasamāptā (!) || || (fol. 92r5–6)
Microfilm Details
'Reel No. B 34/23
Date of Filming 2510-1970
Exposures 97
Used Copy Berlin
Type of Film negative
Remarks fols. 39v/40r have been microfilmed twice (exp. 41/42)
Catalogued by OH
Date 09-06-2004
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