A 20-25 Cāṇakyasārasaṅgraha

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 20/25
Title: Cāṇakyasārasaṅgraha
Dimensions: 31 x 3.5 cm x 26 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Nīti
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 2/226
Remarks:

Reel No. A 20-25

Title Cāṇakyasārasaṃgraha

Remarks Title in the text: Rājanītisamuccaya

Author Cāṇakya

Subject Nīti

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material palm-leaf

State Incomplete

Size x cm

Binding Hole One square binding hole left from the center

Folios 26

Lines per Folio 3-4

Foliation letters in the left margin of the verso, figures in the right margin of the recto.

Accession No. 2-226

Manuscript Features

The manuscript contains at the beginning illegible fragments of another manuscript.

The main text starts on folio 1, microfilmed on the 7^th exposure.

Verses are numbered in groups of 10. There are marginal additions of missing akṣaras or larger portions of text by the same hand. The MS ends without any colophon with a verse numbered 3.89 in the edition (Sternbach 1963). In this MS its number is about 280.

Writing rubbed off on some folios (6v, 7r, 7v, 8r , 8v, 9r, 16r, 17v, 25v, 26r, 29v). Folio 7 is partly broken.

Excerpts

Beginning

❖ oṃ namaḥ sarasvatyai ||

praṇaṃmya(!) śirasā viṣṇuṃ trailokyādhipatiḥ prabhuṃ |
nānāsāstrodhṛtaṃ(!) ca vakte(!) rājanītisamuccayaṃ ||
adhīty evam idaṃ sāstraṃ naro gyāsyāti(!) tatvataḥ |
dharmmopadesaṃ(!) vinayaṃ kāryākāryaṃ śubhās(!)ubhaṃ ||
tad ahaṃ saṃpravakṣyāmi narānāṃ(!) hitakāmyayā |
yena prajñā pravarddhante māteva hitakāriṇī |
mūlasūtraṃ pravakṣyāmi cānakyena tu bhāvitaṃ |
yena vijñātamātrena(!) sarvvajñatvaṃ hi jāyate ||
mūrkhaśikhyopadeśena duṣṭāstrībharaṇena ca ||
dviṣatāṃ samprayogena paṇḍito py avasīdati ||
guṇibhiḥ saha samparkkaḥ paṇḍitai saha saṃkathā |
kulibhi saha mitratvaṃ durvvāno(!) nāvasīdati |
unmatānāṃ(!) bhujaṃgānāṃ madyapānāñ ca daṃtināṃ |
strīṇāṃ rājakulānāṃ ca viśvasaṃti gatāyuṣāḥ || (fol. 1v1-2r1)

Sub-colophons

iti cānakyasārasaṃgrahe prathamasataka(!) samāptaṃ || ○ || (fol. 11v1) (exp. 016)

iti cānakyasārasaṃgrahe dvitīyaḥ śatakaḥ || ❁ || (fol. 22v1) (exp. 027)

End

stanahīnā tu yā nārī ghṛtahīnan tu bhojanaṃ |
vastrahīnam alaṃkāraṃ vi(dy)āhīno dvijottamaḥ ||
śobhate śalile padmaṃ śobhate jñānato dvijaḥ |
śobhate tapasā yukto vraṇaṃ śūrasya śobhate ||
yajñotsavañ ca viprāṇāṃ mūrkhānāṃ kalahotsavaṃ |
puruṣotsavaṃ nārīṇāṃ gavāṇ navatṛṇotsavaṃ ||
agnihotraphalasvedaṃ śīlavṛttaphalaṃ śrutaṃ ||
ratiputraphalā nārī dattabhuktaphalān(!) dhanam ||
agnir ddahati tāpena sūryyo dahati raśmibhiḥ |
rājā dahati daṇḍena tapasā brāhmaṇo dahet ||

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 20/25

Used Copy Berlin

Type of Film negative

Catalogued by AM

Date 2003