A 342-12 Vetālapañcaviṃśati

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 342/12
Title: Vetālapañcaviṃśati
Dimensions: 19.5 x 6.5 cm x 14 folios
Material: paper?
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Kathā
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/882
Remarks:

Reel No. A 342-12 Inventory No. 86667

Title Vetālapañcaviṃśati

Subject Kathā

Language Newari

Text Features Only the 22^nd-25^th vetāla stories appear. The 22^nd story is particularly popular in Nepal. A three-act drama was composed by King Jagat Prakāśa Malla elaborating it.

(see Brinkhaus,1987; Tuladhar, 2000; Sthapit, 2000)

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material paper ( loose )

State incomplete

Size 19.5 x6.5 cm

Folios 14

Lines per Folio 5

Foliation figures in right margin

Scribe Devācārya

Date of Copying NS 806 bhādra kṛṣṇa 4 śukravāra

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 1/882

Used for edition no

Manuscript Features

Excerpts

Beginning

chinaṃ, kālanali anaṃgasenā dulisa thaṃṅāva, mūladevana, tha(2)ma bhaṭṭarāṇa yāṅāva rājāyāke vaṃṅāva hlāraṃ, sohuna āva je strī(3) lulo, anaṃgasenāo, uthyaṃ ṅaṃṅa maṅāṅa sohuna, thva khaṅāva, rā(4)jā kautuka cāyāva conaṃ, anaṃgasenā joṅāva, opani thava cheṃ li(5)hā vanaṃ, thva khaṃsa vetālana, rājāyāke seyakaraṃ, bho mahārāja, thva (143v1) tesa suyā tava buddhi, thva ṅeṅāva rājāna dhāraṃ, kutaniyā va buddhi (2) gathyaṃna dhārasā, omatuni samasta, buddhiṃ dayakaraṃ, thvatena, thvayā (3) tava buddhi, thathyaṃ dhāstuna, vetāla thava thāyasa coṃna vanaṃ || 22 || (fols. 143r1–143v3)

End

thva velatāla vayāva (5) dhāraṃ bho rājana chevalasa jepani nehmaṃ jura go, thathya siddhi (57r1) lāṅāva mahā ānandana, vikramādityarājā thava rājya vayāva (2) pṛthivi samastaṃ jaya rapāva sukhana bijyāteḍhe || 25 || Fols. 56v4–57r2)

«Sub–Colophons:»

i(4)ti dvāviṃśati vetāla samāptaḥ || ۞ || (fol. 143v3–4)

|| 23 || iti trayoviṃśatitamo vetālaḥ samāptaḥ || ۞ || (fol. 149v1)

|| 24 || iti caturvviśatitamo vetālaḥ samā⟨ptaṃ⟩(3)pta || ۞ || (fol. 152r2–3)

|| 25 || iti paṃcaṃ(3)viṃśatitamo vetālaḥ samāptaḥ || ۞ || śubhamastu || (fol.157r2–3)

Colophon

samvat 806 (4) bhādraprada vvadi 4 aśvinīnakṣatra, dhruvayoga, śukravāra, thva kuhnu (5) saṃpurṇṇa yāṅā, devācājyana juro śubhaḥ || ۞ || ۞ || ḥ || (fol. 157r3–5)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 342/12

Date of Filming 05-05-1972

Exposures 28

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Microfilming was done randomly. The first microfilmed folios are 143-145, 156, 155, 153, 152, 151 and the second ones are 146-153, 155-157r, 145, 144, 143.

Catalogued by KT/JM

Date 01-11-2002

Bibliography

Brinkhaus, Horst (ed.), 1987

Jagatprakāśamallas Mūladevaśaśidevavyākhyānanāṭaka. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden. (In German)

Tuladhar, Sarasvati (ed.), 2000

Mūladevaśaśideva. Nepal Mandal Publication no. 6. Yala (Lalitpur): Nepal Mandal, Ghaḥcāḥdhukū, NS 1120. (In Newari )

Sthapit, Jvala (ed.), 2000

Vetāla Pañcaviṃśati. Nepal Mandal Publication no. 3. Yala (Lalitpur): Nepal Mandal Ghaḥcāḥdhukū, NS 1120. (In Newari )