A 299-3 Skandapurāṇa

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 299/3
Title: Skandapurāṇa
Dimensions: 40 x 9 cm x 98 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Purāṇa
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 5/5300
Remarks: Kedārakhaṇḍa; I

Reel No. A 299-3 Inventory No. 67179

Title Skandapurāṇa

Remarks The text covered is the Kedārakhaṇḍa.

Author attributed to Vyāṣa

Subject Purāṇa

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material paper

State complete

Size 40.0 x 9.0 cm

Folios 98

Lines per Folio 10

Foliation figures in the middle right-hand margin on the verso

Illustrations one in exp. 3t and one in exp. 

Date of Copying SAM 1947

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 5/5300

Manuscript Features

Excerpts

Beginning

❖ śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ

śrībhavānīśaṃkarābhyāṃ namaḥ ||

yasyājñayā jagatsraṣṭā viriṃci(!) pālako hariḥ |

saṃharttā kālarudrākhyo namas tasmai pinākine ||

tīrthānām uttamaṃ tīrthaṃ kṣetrāṇāṃ kṣetram uttamaṃ ||

tatraiva naimiṣāraṇye śaunakādyāḥ tapodhanāḥ ||

dīrghasatraṃ prakurvvaṃtaḥ satriṇāṃ svamatena saḥ |

teṣāṃ saṃdarśanautsukyād āgato hi mahātapāḥ | (fol. 1v1–2)

End

ṛṣaya ūcaḥ(!) ||

evam uktaṃ tvayā sūta, caritaṃ śaṃkarasya ca |

anena caritenaiva, saṃtṛptā(!) smo na saṃśayaḥ ||    ||

sūta uvāca ||

vyāsaprasādāc chrutam asti sarvvaṃ,

mayā tataṃ śaṃkararūpaḥm(!) adbhutaṃ ||

suvistṛtaṃ cādbhutavedagarbhaṃ

jñānātmakaṃ paramaṃ puṇyarūpaṃ || (!)

śraddhayā parayopetāḥ arcayanti śivaṃ priyaṃ |

śṛṇvanti caiva yaṃ bhaktyā śaṃbhor māhātmyam adbhutaṃ |

śivaśāstram idaṃ viprās te yāṃti (paramāṃ) gati(!) ||     || (fol. 98r6–98v2)

Colophon

iti śrīskandapurāṇe kedārakhaṇḍe śaivaśāstre paṃcaviṃśo [ʼ]dhyāyaḥ ||     || mama (‥) śaṃkarapri(!)tir astu ||         ||

svasti śrīsamvat 1947 sāla mītī(!) vaisāṣa(!) vadī(!)10 roja2 (fol. 98v2–3)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 299/3

Date of Filming 12-03-1972

Exposures 104

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks two exposures of fols. 21v–22r

Catalogued by BK/RK

Date 05-05-2008

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