A 20-12 Chandomāṇikya
Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: A 20/12
Title: Chandomāṇikya
Dimensions: 32 x 5 cm x 6 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Chandaḥśāstra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 3/690
Remarks:
Reel No. A 20-12
Inventory No. 14464
Title Chandomāṇikya
Author Tathāgatadāsa
Subject Chandaḥśāstra
Language Sanskrit
Text Features In the conclusion to his short treatise Tathāgatadāsa mentions Citrabhānu’s Chandaḥsundarikā, a hitherto unknown work on metrics, and confesses his indebtedness to it. Jñānaśrī[mitra], Jayadeva, Piṅgala and Ratnākaraśānti are also mentioned there. The Chandomāṇikya must have been written after Ratnākaraśānti’s Chandoratnākara but probably not very late than it, perhaps still in the 11th c. Cf. reel nos. A 20/16 and G 8/16.
Reference Dimitrov 200?
Manuscript Details
Script Newari
Material palm-leaf
State incomplete; only fols. 5, 7–11 are preserved.
Size 32.0 x 5.0 cm
Binding Hole 1, rectangular, in the middle
Folios 6
Lines per Folio 7
Foliation figures in the middle of the left-hand margin on the verso; fol. 10 is numbered on the left-hand as well as on the right-hand margin; below the figure on the left-hand margin of the same folio the figure 9 has been deleted.
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 3/690
Used for Edition yes
Manuscript Features
The edge of fol. 5 is partly broken off affecting the first line of fol. 5r and the last one of fol. 5v; approximately 7–8 akṣaras on each side are missing. Fol. 5v is partly rubbed off and hard to read; fol. 10v has suffered less but at places it is also not clearly legible. Fol. 11v which written by the same hand contains an incomplete list of the samavṛtta metres discussed in the Chandomāṇikya starting with the Vidyunmālā metre and ending with the Pravaralalita metre. The numbers given after each metre and calculated by means of the uddiṣṭa procedure (i.e. the second pratyaya) indicate the position in the prastāra table. This partly corrupt list has been appended probably by a later scholar.
Excerpts
Beginning
(1)so tha lā⁅ṭ⁆ī ca | naṃdinī ceti sapta⁅dhā⁆ ||<ref name="ftn1">The first three pādas of this stanza in the Anuṣṭubh metre should have read something like this: *prabhāvatī praharṣaṇī lakṣmī ca mattamayūram | kalahaṃso ʼtha lāṭī ca* …</ref>
dvitīyakaṃ navamacaturthako yadi
trayodaśaṃ daśamalaghoḥ paran tathā |
gurūṇy amūny agurutayā pare ⁅s⁆thi⁅tā
⌣ − tv⁆.⁅tā bhava⁆ti tadā prabhāva(2)tī ||
⌣ − ⌣ − ⌣ ⌣ ⌣ ⌣ − ⌣ − ⌣ − ||
trīṇy ādau yadi gurutām iha vrajeyu (!)
catvāro pi ca laghavo gurur laghuś ca |
gurvv ekaṃ tadanu laghur guru (!) tato dvau
vicchedas triṣu daśasu praharṣaṇīyaṃ ||
− − − ◆ ⌣ ⌣ ⌣ ⌣ − ⌣ − ⌣ − − ◆ (3) || (fol. 5r1–2)
Extracts
ati(fol. 5v)jagatibhedaḥ || (fol. 5r7–5v1)
śakva(7)rībhedaḥ || (fol. 5v6–7)
atyaṣṭibhedaḥ || (fol. 7r1)
dhṛtibhedaḥ || (fol. 7r6)
atidhṛtibhedaḥ || (fol. 7v2)
kṛtibhedaḥ || (fol. 7v6)
prakṛtibhedaḥ || (fol. 8r1)
iti samavṛttāni (3) || (fol. 8r2–3)
arddhasamavṛttāni || (fol. 8v7)
viṣamodgatābhedaḥ || (fol. 9v1)
iti viṣamavṛttāni || (fol. 9v1)
āryā uktāḥ || (fol. 10r3)
vaitālīyajātiḥ || (fol. 10r5)
mātrāsamakajātiḥ || (fol. 10v2)
|| iti pādena daṇḍakāḥ kathyante || (fol. 10v5)
pracito yaṃ || (fol. 11r3)
End
(4) Cchandaḥsuṃdarikāṃ vilokya vipulāṃ śrīCitrabhānoḥ kṛtiṃ
JñānaśrīJayadevaPiṃ〇[[ga]]lam⟪ā⟫atāc cādāya sāraṃ manāk |
śrīRatnākaram a⁅p⁆y agādham atulaṃ viṣvag vi⟪nā⟫gāhyo(5)ddhṛtaṃ
Cchandoratnam anargham arghitagirām bhūyād varobhūṣaṇaṃ ||
etan me sarasaṃ sakautuka〇m abhispaṣṭam prasiddhākṣarair
akliṣṭair vacanair apūrvvaracanā (!) vyutpannam udbhāvayan |
(6) yaḥ ko pi pratibhākṣaya⟪ḥ⟫pratibhayād aślokakāraḥ svayaṃ
so pītthaṃ bhavitā kavīndrasadasi prauḍho girā⟨ā⟩m īśvaraḥ ||
preṣaṇam prāpya bhikṣūṇāṃ śrīKhasarpaṇacāriṇām |
Cchandomāṇi(7)kyam asrākṣīd upādhyāyas Tathāgataḥ || (fol. 11r4–7)
Colophon
|| Cchandomāṇikyaṃ nāma cchandasārasāstraṃ (!) samāptaṃ || || kṛtir upādhyāyaTathāgatadāśasyeti || || śubha || (fol. 11r7)
Beginning (fol. 11v)
(1) ❖ vidyutmālaprastāre (!) prathame 1 citrapadaṃ 55 samānikā 170 (!) catuḥpramāṇikā 84 padminī 19 pathyā 10 māṇavakakrīḍitakaṃ 1021 (!) || 8 || bhujagaśiśusṛtā 64 || 9 || ma(2)yūramālinī<ref name="ftn2">Read: *mayūrasārinī. </ref> 171 mattā 241 … (fol. 11v1–2)
End (fol. 11v)
… vasantatilakaṃ 2933 || 14 || caṃdralekhā 4647 (!) maṇi(7)guṇanikaraḥ 1627 (!) mālinī 4673 (!) || 15 || sukeśaraṃ 220448 (!) pravalalalitaṃ<ref name="ftn3">Read: *pravaralalitaṃ.</ref> 10178 || 16 || (end of fol. 11v)
Microfilm Details
Reel No. A 20/12
Date of Filming 31-08-1970
Exposures 10
Used Copy Berlin
Type of Film negative
Remarks fols. 10v–11r filmed twice (exps. 7–8)
Catalogued by DD
Date 16-12-2002
Bibliography
Dimitrov, Dragomir
200? Edition of the Chandomāṇikya.
200? “Ratnākaraśānti’s Chandoratnākara and Tathāgatadāsa’s Chandomāṇikya.”, in: Felicitation volume for Professor Michael Hahn.
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