A 375-10 Kumārasambhava (1 to 7 cantos)

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 375/10
Title: Kumārasambhava
Dimensions: 29.1 x 10 cm x 37 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Kāvya
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/1443
Remarks:

Reel No. A 375/10

Inventory No. 36803

Title Kumārasaṃbhava

Remarks

Author Kālidāsa

Subject Kāvya

Language Sanskrit

Reference BSP 2, p. 50, no. 56 (1/1443)

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State incomplete, available folios: 1 and 3–38

Size 29.1 x 10.0 cm

Binding Hole(s)

Folios 37

Lines per Page 8–10

Foliation figures in the upper left-hand margin and in the lower right-hand margin under the abbreviation ku. ra on the verso; exceptions: fol. 1 (the folio number is in the upper right-hand margin and in the lower left-hand margin), and fols. 3 and 5–8 (the folio numbers are in the two lower margins)

Scribe

Date of Copying

Place of Copying

King

Donor

Owner/Deliverer

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 1/1443

Manuscript Features

The text runs form the very beginning up to the middle of the second pāda of śloka 94 of the 7th sarga.

After fol. 38 there is one folio numbered 65, which contains part of some unidentified commentary on the Kumārasaṃbhava. It starts from the middle of śloka 64 and goes up to the middle of sloka 68 of the 3rd sarga.

Excerpts

Beginning

śrīgaṇeśāye (!) namaḥ ||

asty uttarasyāṃ diśi devatātmā

himālayo nāma nagādhirājaḥ ||

pūrvāparau toyanidhi (!) vagāhya

sthitaḥ pṛthivyā iva mānadaḍaḥ (!) || 1 ||

yaṃ sarvasailāḥ (!) parikalpya vatsaṃ

merau sthite dogdhari dohadakṣe ||

bhāsvaṃti ratnāni mahauṣadhīś ca

pṛthūpadiṣṭāṃ duduhur dharitrī (!) || 2 ||

anaṃtaratnaprabhavasya yasya

himan na saubhāgyavilopi jātaṃ |

eko hi doṣo guṇasaṃnipāte

nimajjatīndoḥ kiraṇeṣv ivāṃkaḥ || 3 || (fol. 1v1–5)

End

tau saṃdhiṣu vyajitavṛtibhedaṃ (!)

rasāntareṣu pratibaddharāgaṃ |

apaṃśyatām (!) apsarasāṃ muhūrttaṃ

prayogam ā⟪dyiṃ⟫dyaṃ lalitāṃgahāraṃ || 91 ||

devās tadante haram ūḍhabhāryāṃ (!)

kīrīṭabaddhāṃjalayo nipatya ||

śāpāvasāne pratilabdhamurtter (!)

yayācire paṃcaśarasya sevāṃ || 92 ||

tasyānumene bhagavān vimanyur

vyāpāram ātmany api sāyakānāṃ ||

kāle prayuktā khalu kālavadbhir (!)

vijñāpanā bhartṛṣu siddham eti || 93 ||

atha vibudhagaṇāṃs tān idumaulir (!) visṛjya

kṣitidharapa/// (fol. 38v4–8)

Colophon

x

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 375/10

Date of Filming 04-07-1972

Exposures 41

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks Fol. 33r is out of focus but legible.

Catalogued by NK

Date 06-06-2007

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