B 15-23(1) Mālatīmādhava
Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: B 15/23
Title: Mālatīmādhava
Dimensions: 31 x 5.5 cm x 38 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Nāṭaka and Nāṭyaśāstra
Date: NS 276
Acc No.: NAK 1/1473
Remarks:
Reel No. B 15/23
Inventory No. 34218–34220
Title Mālatῑmādhava
Remarks
Author Bhavabhuti / Bhūgarbha
Subject Nāṭaka
Language Sanskrit
Text Features The text in this MS is with notable variants.
Manuscript Details
Script Newari
Material palm-leaf
State incomplete, damaged at margins
Size 31.0 x 5.5 cm
Binding Hole one in centre left
Folios 38
Lines per Folio 8
Foliation figures in the left margin of the verso side
Date of Copying [NS]
Donor Budharakṣita
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 1/1473
Manuscript Features
This MS is damaged in the right margin and two to four akṣaras in every line is lost.
It bears occasional notes at margins. The verso of the last folios bears three lines possibly in Prakrit, which is faded and I am not able to read in microfilm.
On the three extra folios in the beginning the following notes are written here and there:
śreyo stu samvat 234 āśvinśuklaikadaśyāṃ śrīpamcakī grāme śrīparvamahānagare | śrī ; the rest is unclear.
nāgodhephalaṃ…
Excerpts
Beginning
❖ oṃ namaḥ sarvajñāya ||
sānandan nandihastāhatamurajaravāhūtakaumārabarhi,-
trāsān nāsāgrarandhraṃ viśati phaṇipatau bhogasaṃkocabhāji |
gaṇḍ(o)ḍḍīnālimālāmukharitakakubhodyā///10
ś ciraṃ, vo, vadanavidhutayaḥ pāntu, cītkāravartyaḥ ||
api ca ||
cūḍāpīḍakapālasaṅkulavalatmandākinīvārayo,
vidyutprāyalalāṭalocanapuṭajyotir vimiśratviṣaḥ |
pāntu tvām akaṭhoraketakaśikhāsandigdhamugdhendavo
bhūteśasya bhujaṅgavallivalayasraṅnaddhajūṭā jaṭāḥ || 1 || (fol. 1v1–3)
... nīlakaṇṭhasyātmasambhavaḥ śrīkaṇṭhapadalāñchano bhavabhūtirnāma jatūkarṇṇīputraḥ kaviḥ | nisargasauhṛdena bharateṣu pravartamānaḥ svakṛtim evaṃ[[prāya]]guṇabhūyasīm asmākaṃ [[sa]]marpitavān | (fol. 2r1)
End
yat prāg eva manorathir vṛtabhūt kalyāṇam āyuṣmato,s
tat puṇyair madupakramaiś ca phalitaṃ kleśai(!)///1 mac chiśyayoḥ |
niṣṇātaś ca samāgamaś ca vihitaḥ tvaṃpreyasaḥ kāntayā |
saṃprītau nṛpanandaṇau yad aparaṃ kāryaṃ tad apy ucyatāmtām || 24 ||
mādhavaḥ | ataḥ param api priyam asti | tathāpi idam astu || ❁ || iti niṣkrāntāḥ///2 daśamoṅkaḥ samāptaḥ ||
santaḥ santu nirantaraṃ sukṛtino vidhvastapāpodayā
rājānaḥ paripālayantu vasudhān dharme sthitāḥ sarvadā |
kāle santatavarṣiṇo jalamucaḥ santu prajāpuṇyataḥ
modantām ghanabaddhabāndhavasuhṛdgoṣṭhipramodāḥ prajāḥ || 25 || (fol. 28v8–39r3)
Colophon
samāptā idam mālatīmādhavākhyaṃ nāṭakaṃ || ❁ || kṛtir iyam mahākaver bhūgarbhasya || ○ || saṃ 276/// śviṇiśuklapaṃcamyā śukradine likhitam iti śreyaḥ śrībhikṣubudhaharakitasya pustako yaṃ || ○ || (fol. 39r3–4)
Microfilm Details
Reel No. B 15/23
Date of Filming 30-08-70
Exposures 47
Used Copy Kathmandu
Type of Film positive
Remarks The 18th folio is filmed twice. Folios are not in order at the end.
Catalogued by NK
Date 30-10-2003
