A 375-13 Kumārasambhava (1 to 7 cantos)
Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: A 375/13
Title: Kumārasambhava
Dimensions: 22.1 x 8 cm x 48 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Transitional Gupta
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Kāvya
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 5/3462
Remarks: with glosses / ṭippanī
Reel No. A 375/13
Inventory No. 36794
Title Kumārasambhava
Remarks
Author Kālidāsa
Subject Kāvya
Language Sanskrit
Manuscript Details
Script Newari
Material paper
State incomplete
Size 22.1 x 8.0 cm
Binding Hole(s)
Folios 48
Lines per Page 5
Foliation figures in the middle of the left-hand margin and letters in the middle of the right-hand margin on the verso; the foliation in the left-hand margin runs only up to fol. 30
Scribe
Date of Copying
Place of Copying
King
Donor
Owner/Deliverer
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 5/3462
Manuscript Features
The text runs form the very beginning up to śloka 75 of the 7th sarga.
Word divisions are marked by small vertical strokes from the beginning of the text up to fol. 20v and from fol. 42r to the end.
Ṭippaṇas (short glosses) appear regularly in the first 17 folios, intermittently from there up to fol. 37r, and again regularly from fol. 37v onwards.
On fol. 1r is written:
❖ rāmo hemamṛgan na vetti naghuṣo yāne yunakti dvijāṃ (!), viprasyaikasavatsa[[dhenu]]haraṇe yātā matiś cārjune || dyūte bhrātṛścatuṣṭayaṃ (!) samahiṣīṃ dharmmātmajo dattavāṃ (!) praye satpuro (!) visanosamaye (!)<ref>Perhaps for: prāye satpuruṣo vipattisamaye</ref> buddhyā parityajyate ||
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Excerpts
Beginning
❖ oṃ namaḥ śivāya ||
asty uttarasyāṃ diśi devatātmā,
himālayo nāma nagādhirājaḥ |
pūrvvāparau toyanidhī vigāhya
sthitaḥ pṛthivyā iva mānadaṇdaḥ || 1 ||
yaṃ sarvvaśailāḥ parikalpya vatsaṃ,
merau sthite dogdhari dohadakṣye |
bhāsvanti ratnāni mahauṣadhīś ca, Insert non-formatted text here
pṛthūpadiṣṭāṃ duduhur ddharitrīṃ || 2 ||
anantaratnaprabhavasya yasya,
himan na saubhāgyavilopi jātaṃ |
eko hi doṣo guṇasaṃnipāte,
nimajjatīndoḥ kiraṇeṣv ivāṅkaḥ || 3 || (fol. 1v1–4)
End
dukūlavāsā[[ḥ]] sa vadhūsamīpaṃ
ninye vinītair avarodhamukhyaiḥ |
velāsamīpaṃ sphuṭaphenarātrir
nnavair udanvān iva candrapādaiḥ || 73 ||
tayā pravṛddhānanacandrakāntyā
praphullacakṣuḥkumudaḥ kumāryyā ||
prasannacetaḥsalilaḥ śivo ʼbhūt
saṃsṛjyamānaḥ śarad eva lokaḥ || 74 ||
tayoḥ samāpattiṣu kātarāṇ I
kiñcid vyavasthāpitasaṃhṛtāni |
hrīyantraṇāṃ tatkṣaṇam anvabhūvann
anyonyalolāni (!) vilocanāni || (fol. 48v3–5)
Colophon
x
Microfilm Details
Reel No. A 375/13
Date of Filming 04-07-1972
Exposures 53
Used Copy Kathmandu
Type of Film positive
Remarks Fols. 1v–3v have been microfilmed in the order 1v, 3r, 3v, 2r, 2v and 4r. There are two exposures of fols. 2v, 4r and 37v–38r
Catalogued by NK
Date 19-06-2007
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