A 273-4 Vāmanapurāṇa

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 273/4
Title: Vāmanapurāṇa
Dimensions: 32 x 12.5 cm x 193 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Purāṇa
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 2/18
Remarks:

Reel No. A 273-4 Inventory No. 85115

Title Vāmanapurāṇa

Subject Purāṇa

Language Sanskrit

Reference SSP p. 136b, no. 5101

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State complete

Size 32.0 x 12.5 cm

Folios 193

Lines per Folio 9

Foliation figures on the verso; in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation either vāmana. or the title vāmapurāṇam and in the lower right-hand margin under the word rāma

Scribe Gaurīdatta

Date of Copying ŚS 1690

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 2/18

Manuscript Features

idaṃ śrīvāmanapurāṇaṃ pustakaṃ gaurīdattaśarmaṇā sampāditam

śrīgaurīdattasya ||

Excerpts

Beginning

❖ oṃ namo nārāyaṇāya ||

nārāyaṇaṃ namaskṛtya, naraṃ caiva narottamaṃ |

devīṃ sarasvatīṃ caiva, tato jayam udīrayet ||

pulastyam ṛṣim āsīna,m āśrame dharmiṇāṃ varaṃ |

nāradaḥ paryyapṛchat taṃ, purāṇaṃ vāmanāśrayaṃ ||

kathaṃ bhagavatā Brahman, viṣṇunā prabhaviṣṇunā ||

vāmanatvaṃ kṛtaṃ pūrvvaṃ, tan mamācakṣva pṛcha(!)taḥ | (fol. 1v1–2)

End

itīdam uktvā vacanaṃ munīndaḥ,

sa nāradaṃ vipravaraṃ supuṇyaṃ |

jagāma hṛṣṭo varatīrthayātrāṃ,

sa cāpi kāśyāṃ tapa⟪‥⟫se jagāma ||

yad yogibhir bhavabhayārttivināśayogya,m

āsādya vanditam atīva viraktacittaiḥ |

tad vaḥ punātu haripādasarojayugma,m

āvirbhavat kramavilaṃghitabhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ ||     || (fol. 193r6–8)

Colophon

iti śrīvāmanapurāṇe phalānukīrttanaṃ nāmaikonasaptatitamo dhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ || 69 ||     ||

idaṃ pustakaṃ gaurīdattasya | śāke 1690 jyeṣṭhe kṛṣṇe māyām(!) (fol. 193r8–9)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 273/4

Date of Filming 27-02-1972

Exposures 198

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks two exposures of fols. 25v–26r and 148v–149r

Catalogued by MS

Date 04-03-2008

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