B 14-10 Amarakoṣa
Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: B 14/10
Title: Amarakoṣa
Dimensions: 30.5 x 6 cm x 15 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Maithili
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Kośa
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/1537
Remarks:
Reel No. B 14/10
Inventory No. 2167
Title Amarakośa
Remarks also known as Nāmaliṅgānuśāsana
Author Amarasiṃha
Subject Kośa
Language Sanskrit
Text Features beginning of the first kāṇḍa only
Manuscript Details
Script Maithili
Material palm-leaf
State incomplete, damaged
Size 30.5 x 6.0 cm
Binding Hole 1, rectangular, left of centre
Folios 15
Lines per Folio 5–6
Foliation figures in the middle of the left-hand margin of the verso
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 1/1537
Manuscript Features
Fols. 1–13 are damaged to various degrees, mainly in the right-hand margin.
A short description of this MS is to be found in BSP vol. IX p. 17 no. 41.
There is an additional, dated folio appended to this MS, which possibly indicates a later owner of this text. It begins as follows:
❖ samvat 781 māghaśrīpaṃcamī amarasiṃ (!) ārambhadina || …
Excerpts
Beginning
❖ oṁ namo herambāya ||
- yasya jñānadayāsindhor agādhasyānaghā guṇāḥ |
- sevyatām akṣayo dhīrāḥ sa śriye cāmṛtāya ca ||
- samāhṛtyānyatantrāṇi saṃkṣiptaiḥ pratisaṃskṛtaiḥ |
- saṃpūrṇṇam ucyate vargair nnāmaliṅgānusāsanaṃ ||
- prāyaso rūpabhedena sāhacaryāc ca kutracit |
- strī⁅punna⁆puṃsakaṃ jñeyaṃn (!) tadviśeṣavidheḥ kvacit ||
- bhedākhyānāya na ○ dvandvo naikaśeṣo na śaṅkaraḥ |
- kṛto ʼtra bhinnaliṅgānām a⁅nuktā⁆nāṃ kramād rite (!) ||
- triliṅgyā triṣv iti padaṃ mithune ○ can(!)dvayor iti |
- niṣiddhaliṅgaṃ śeṣārthan tvantāthādi na pūrvvabhāk ||
- svar avyayaṃ svargganākatridivatridaśālayāḥ |
- suralo○ko dyodivau dve striyau (!) klībe tripiṣṭapaṃ (!) ||
- amarā nirjjarā devās tridaśā vibudhā (!) surāḥ |
- suparvvāṇaḥ sumanasas tridiveśā divaukasaḥ ||
- āditeyā diviṣado lekhā ʼditinandanāḥ |
- ādityā ṛbha(fol. 2r1)vo ʼsvapnā amarttyā amṛtāndhasaḥ ||
- (fol. 1v1–2r1)
End
- dravakeliparihāsāḥ krīḍā līlā ca narmma ca |
- vyājo padeśo lakṣañ (!) ca krīdā khelā ca kūrddanaṃ ||
- gharmmo nidāghaḥ sveda (!) syāt pralayo naṣṭaceṣṭatā |
- avahitthākāragupti (!) ○ samau samvegasaṃbhramau ||
- syād ācchuritakaṃ bhāsaḥ (!) sotprāsaḥ sa manāk smitaṃ |
- madhyamaḥ syād vihasitaṃ romāñco romaha○rṣaṇaṃ ||
- kranditaṃ ruditaṃ kruṣṭaṃ jṛmbhas ta (!) triṣu jṛmbhana⁅ṃ⁆ |
- vipralambho visamvādo riṅgaṇaṃ skhalanaṃ same ||
- syā (!) nidrā śayanaṃ svā○paḥ svapnaḥ samveśa ity api |
- tandrī pramīlā bhrakuṭir bbhrūkuṭiḥ striyaḥ (!) ||
- adṛṣṭi (!) syād asaumyo (!) kṣṇi saṃsiddhiprakṛti (!) tv ime |
- svarū○pañ ca svabhāvaś ca nisargaś cātha vepathu (!) ||
- kambo (!) ʼtha kṣaṇa uddharṣo mahad uddhava utsavaḥ || ❖ ||
- …
- adhobhuvanapātālabalisadmarasā-<ref>This is the beginning of the pātālabhogivarga.</ref>
- (fol. 15v1–6)
Sub-colophon
ity amarasiṃhakṛtau nāmaliṅgānuśāsanaṃ || svargavargaḥ<ref>Here ends, striclty speaking, the nāṭyavarga of the first kāṇḍa.</ref> || || (fol. 15v6)
Microfilm Details
Reel No. B 14/10
Date of Filming 25-08-1970
Exposures 18
Used Copy Berlin
Type of Film negative
Remarks
Catalogued by OH
Date 22-03-2007
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