A 346-36 Citraketūpākhyāna

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 346/36
Title: Kāśīvijayanāṭaka
Dimensions: 13.5 x 6.5 cm x 3 folios
Material: thyāsaphu
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Nāṭaka and Nāṭyaśāstra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/1696
Remarks:

Reel No. A 346/36

Inventory No. 15362

Title Citraketūpākhyāna

Remarks In the Preliminary List of Manuscripts the title was given as Kāśīvijayanāṭaka

Author Raṇajit Malla

Subject Nāṭaka

Language Maithilī, Newari

Text Features This nāṭaka is based on the story of Bhāgavata purāṇa (Skandha VI, Adhyāyas 14–17, mainly 15–16). The story could be found in Tagare 1976.

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material thyāsaphu

State incomplete

Size 13.5 x 6.5 cm

Binding Hole

Folios 3

Lines per Folio 5

Foliation

Place of Copying Bhaktapur

King Raṇajit Malla

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 1/1696

Manuscript Features

Citraketūpākhyāna: One split into Two

This manuscript written with single hand has split into two parts as below:

A 346/15 – parts of Aṅkas 1–2, 4–6
A 346/36 – parts of Aṅkas 3–4

Both of them makes complete the manuscript. It is split in the following way:

Aṅkas 1–2: Exposures 15–28 (A 346/15)
Aṅkas 3–4: All of Exposures 35 (A 346/36)
Aṅkas 4–6: Exposures 1–13 (A 346/15)

The last parts of exp. 12 and exp. 13 fully are written with second hand.

Excerpts

Full transcripts

karu ||
|| avadhta (pra)ko sarupa ||    ||
he mantrī pra(2)jāloka hame tīrtha bhramaṇa karaya
tāyava toharā (3) sava etahi rahu ||    ||
thuli dhayāva (pra)koto dava(4)la
[[mantryādiloke kahu ]]
||davalaṃ piṃ ||    || prako ||
he avadhūtādilo(5)ke(!) tirtha bhramaṇa karaya jāyava calū ||
|| dviko ||
a(5t1)vadhūtādiloka calū
|| iti tṛtīyāṅka ||    || (2)
atha caturthadivase ||
|| paisāra || nāyakī rā(3)ga || pra ||
nārī calu bhāyidekhi tīratha vīnode || dhru || (4)
lāla ce mora sadā mādhava seohisa pāpa kahāni
vi(5)bhuti lagāya sava ave kāminī
bada sukha yoga karie (5b1) himāni
|| mepu 9 ||    || prako ||
avadhūta vijaya karu (2) ||
avadhūta avaśya
|| dviko ||
avadhta avaśya ||
snā(3)nādi tīpaṃ || kṛṣṇapūjā ||    ||
avadhūta avaśya ||    || (4)
viśrāma ||
avadhūtā ehane ucita
|| snānādi (5) tīpaṃ ||    ||
avadhūta avaśya ||
mahādevapūjā tīpaṃ || (3t1)
stuti | ślokaḥ ||
śaṃkaraṃ praṇamāmpadmaśakaraṃ ||
sarvvadehi(2)nāṃ girīndranandinīnāthaṃ,
yogīndra gaṇavallabhaṃ ||
he (3) trailokyanātha hamarāsavahika sāṣāṅga praṇāma ||    || (4)
nātha ehane ucita ||
|| tipaṃ piṃ || prako ||
nātha (5) gamaṇa karu
|| dviko ||
he avadhūta ⟪i⟫ śīghra gamaṇā ka(3b1)ru
|| lu 28 || paisāra || kalyāṇa || a ||
ka(ra)(2)va saraṇa maheśa || dhru ||
tribhuvaṇaplaka sava sukha(3)dāyaka
dekhiya kāśīadhīśa
|| mepu 10 ||    || pra(4)ko ||
avadhta avaśya ||
|| snānādi yāya tīpaṃ ||    || (5) dviko ||
avadhūta ehane ucita ||
|| snānādi yāya ||

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 346/36

Date of Filming 11-05-1972

Exposures 4

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks

Catalogued by KT/JM

Date 02-12-2002

Bibliography

• Tagare, G. V. (tr.) (1976): "The Bhāgavata Purāna II." In: J. L. shastri, ed. – Ancient Indian Tradition and Mythology, Vol. 8. Delhi: Motilal Banarasidass. Skandha VI chapters 15–16, pp. 854–866.