A 1311-22(5) (Viṣṇustotra)

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 1311/22
Title: (Avalokiteśvarasya)Karuṇāstava
Dimensions: 23 x 3.5 cm x 43 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Stotra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/1362
Remarks:

Reel No. A 1311-22

Inventory No. 122532

Title [Viṣṇustotra]

Author

Subject Stotra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material palm-leaf

State incomplete

Size 23.0 x 3.5 cm

Binding Hole 1

Folios 43

Lines per Folio 4-5

Foliation figures in the left margin of the verso

Date of Copying

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 1-1362

Manuscript Features

This manuscript comprises at least three originally independent manuscripts, each of which contains several stotras. Additionally, there are a number of prakīrṇapattrāṇi.

The content is: Āryāvalokiteśvararūpastava (complete, 4 folios), Āryāvalokiteśvarasya Karuṇāstavastotra (complete, 6 folios), Carpaṭipādastotra (complete, 6 folios), Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra (complete, 21 folios), a Viṣṇustotra with unknown name (incomplete, 3 folios + 1 in another format, but similar in content), 1 prakīrṇapattra (stotra), a part of another manuscript consisting of folios 30 to 34 with a Śivastotra (title unknown) and the Navagrahastotra, and finally one folio with praises of Gaṇeśa.

Most of the folios are well preserved. Writing is rubbed off on a few pages of the Viṣṇusahasranāmastotra.

Excerpts

Beginning

oṃ namo nārāyaṇāya ||

yaṃ brahmāvaruṇendraviśvamarutair ddivyaiḥ stuvanti stavaiḥ
sāṃgair vvedapadakramopaniṣadair gāyanti yaṃ sāmagāḥ |
dhyānāvasthitatadgatena manasā dhyāyanti yaṃ yogino
yasyāntaṃ na gatāḥ surāsuragaṇā devāya tasmai namaḥ || 1 || (fol. 21v1-3)

End

pade pade tulayati gopayoṣitāṃ
sagītakaṃ karatalatālam ujjvalam |
madīyam āramatu mano manorame
yuge yuge caraṇayuge suradviṣaḥ || 7 || (fol. 22v3- 23r1)<ref name="ftn1"> ^{The excerpt is taken from the middle, because the script is rubbed off on 23v. The last stanza on 23v is numbered as 11.}</ref>

satāṃ vartma tyaktvā śrutisamadhigamya sahabhuvaṃ
ghṛṇām apy unmolyaḥ svajanaviṣayaśnehaguṇitāṃ |
dvijaknuntaṃ pāde pitaram aparārddhaṃ(!) tvayi vibho
manuṣyatvaṃ sadyas tridaśaparināmena vijahau || 22 ||<ref name="ftn2">^{This is the content of the additional, unnumbered folio. Its verso side has been left blank.}</ref>

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 1311/22e

Date of Filming 04-06-1988

Exposures

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive (scanned)

Catalogued by AM

Date 11-01-2011

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