A 23-12 Kīcakavadha
Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: A 23/12
Title: Kīcakavadha
Dimensions: 36.5 x 3.5 cm x 12 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition:
Scripts: Maithili
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Kāvya
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/1608
Remarks:
Reel No. A 23-12
Inventory No. 33643
Title Kīcakavadha
Author Nītivarman
Subject Kāvya
Language Sanskrit
Text Features a short poem in five chapters belonging to the yamakakāvya class of texts
Manuscript Details
Script Maithili
Material palm-leaf
State complete; the writing is partly rubbed off.
Size 36.5 x 3.5 cm
Binding Hole 1, rectangular, in the middle
Folios 13
Lines per Folio 4
Foliation figures in the middle of the right-hand margin after the word śrī on the verso
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 1/1608
Manuscript Features
This MTM contains Nītivarman’s poem Kīcakavadha in full. The note “fragmentary” on the original index card is incorrect. Immediately after this text begins a copy of another yamakakāvya, namely Mānāṅka’s poem Vṛndāvana, of which only the first stanza and the first half of the second stanza are available, on fol. 13v3–4 (cf. A 23/12b).
The text of Nītivarman’s Kīcakavadha has been edited by De on the basis of two MSS in Bengali character from the collection of the Dacca University Manuscript Library.<ref name="ftn1">See De 1929; cf. NCC, vol. 4, s.v. kīcakavadha.</ref> The same publication contains an edition of Janārdanasena’s commentary Tatvaprakāśikā prepared from the MS of the India Office Library (IO 3931). De did not have access to Nepalese MSS.
Excerpts
Beginning
⁅śrī haraye⁆ namaḥ ||
jitaḥ sucaritochedī smaro yaṃ duḥsaho mayā |
itīva deham akarod abhinnaṃ yaḥ sahomayā ||
bibhartti hāram anaghaṃ yo bhasmābhir (!) ahiṃ sitaṃ |
tejaś ca manmathaśarair indriyārthair ahiṃsitaṃ ||
yasyā⁅hu⁆(2)r atigambhīrajalada⟪ḥ⟫pratimaṅ galaṃ |
sa vaḥ karo⁅tu⁆ niḥśaṅkaṃ [[hu]]dayaṃ<ref name="ftn2">Read: niḥśaṃkam udayaṃ i.o. niḥśaṅkaṃ [[hu]]dayaṃ.</ref> prati maṅgalaṃ ||
yā 〇 trilokanatā mūrttir upāyena jugopa tāṃ |
⁅yo vaha⁆t kaṃsanidhanaprayuktām ṛjugopatāṃ (3) ||
babhāra vapur ambhojaprabhayā pūtanābhi yaḥ |
papāta karmmaṇā yasya prabhayā pūtanā bhiyaḥ 〇 ||
sa punātu vraje yaś ca gorajaḥpātaru⁅kṣitau |
śiśu⁆r ucchidya jamajau<ref name="ftn3">Read: yamajau i.o. jamajau.</ref> niṣpipe(4)ṣa tarū kṣitau || (fol. 1v1–4)
End
pathiṣu ca ku(2)ravo jalāśayānāṃ
saha kusumaprabhayāravindinān te |
bhayapihitadṛśa (!) pra⁅naṣ]ṭa⁅di⁆(śo
da)dṛśu〇r<ref name="ftn4">One short syllable, most probably before dadṛśur, is missing. There either na or pra° would have been expected.</ref> astamitaṃ ravin dinānte ||
iti bhavatu daśā tavāhitānāṃ
sakalamah⁅īja⁆yabhūta vāhitānāṃ |
(3) (śa)va<ref name="ftn5">Read: vasa i.o. (śa)va.</ref> sukham u⁅da⁆yād ahīyamāna⁅ḥ⁆
sakaladharādharaṇād ahīyamānaḥ || (fol. 13v1–3)
Sub-colophons
iti śrīkīcakavadhe mahākāvye prathamaḥ .. r.. .. .āptaḥ<ref name="ftn6">Read: *sarggaḥ samāptaḥ*.</ref> || (fol. 3r3)
i〇ti kīcakavadhe mahākāvye dvitīyaḥ sarggaḥ || (fol. 5r2)
iti kīcakavadhe mahākābye tṛtīyaḥ sarggaḥ || (fol. 8v2)
iti caturthaḥ sarggaḥ || (fol. 12r2)
iti śrīn⟪i⟫ītivarmma kṛtau kī〇cakavadhe mahākāvye pañcamaḥ sarggaḥ || (fol. 13v3)
Microfilm Details
Reel No. A 23/12a
Date of Filming 04-09-1970
Exposures 16
Used Copy Berlin
Type of Film negative
Remarks Fols. 3–6 appear in the following order: fols. 2v–6r (exp. 4), fols. 6v–3r (exp. 5), fols. 3v–5r (exp. 6) fols. 5v–4r (exp. 7) and fols. 4v–7r (exp. 8).
Catalogued by DD
Date 15-10-2003
Bibliography
De, Sushil Kumar
1929: The Kīcaka-Vadha of Nītivarman with the Commentary of Janārdanasena. Edited from Original Manuscripts, With an Introduction, Notes and Extracts from the Commentary of Sarvānandanāga by Sushil Kumar De. Dacca 1929. (Dacca University Oriental Publications Series, No. 1).
New Catalogus Catalogorum
1968: New Catalogus Catalogorum. An Alphabetical Register of Sanskrit and Allied Works and Authors. Editor: V. Raghavan. Associate Editor: K. Kunjunni Raja. Volume Four. Madras 1968. (Madras University Sanskrit Series 29).
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