A 345-10 Kāśīvijayanāṭaka

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 345/10
Title: Kāśīvijayanāṭaka
Dimensions: 25 x 7 cm x 59 folios
Material: paper?
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Nāṭaka and Nāṭyaśāstra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 4/937
Remarks:

Reel No. A 345-10 Inventory No.: 30812

Title Kāśīvijayanāṭaka

Author Rāmacandra

Subject Nāṭaka

Language Bengali, Maithili, Newari

Text Features

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material paper

State  : incomplete

Size 25.0 x 7.0 cm

Binding Hole rectangular in the middle

Folios 58

Lines per Folio 7

Foliation figures in the right-hand margin on the verso

Date of Copying NS 717

Place of Copying Bhaktapur

Scribe Viśvarāma

King Gangadevi, Trailokya Malla, Tribhuvana Malla <<<We should perhaps consider writing Rulers instead. AH>>>

Donor

Owner of MS

Place of Deposite NAK

Accession No. 4/397

Used for edition Shrestha 2004

Manuscript Features:

1. Fols. 4–9 are missing.

2. There are two exposures of fols. 44v–45r

3. The authorship of Rāmacandra

Dhakal (1995 5) mentions in his edition of the Harikeli, an epic by Vaṃśamaṇi, that no original work by the poet's father, Rāmacandra, has ever been found. Here we have a nāṭaka by him. Though the author does not mention his name in Prastāvanā aṅka (initial introductory act) from mepu (song number) 21 to the last (120), he mentions both his name and that of the king Tribhuvana Malla. Before his name occur the verbs gāe (‘sung,’ song no. 21) bola (‘spoken’ no. 35), kahaya (‘said’ no. 36), bhāne (‘told’ no. 42), gāyalo (‘sang’ no.120) etc. This certainly proves that the author of this nāṭaka is Vipra Rāmacandra. He is said to be the father of Vaṃśamaṇi kavi of the Bhāradvāja gotra and to have hailed from Janakajanapada (modern Janakpur in southern Nepal) in the Sanskrit nāṭaka of Vaṃśamaṇi's Gītadigambara, which was staged in the time of the king Pratap Malla of Kathmandu.

Another work by Rāmacandra, the Pārijātaharaṇanāṭaka (Inv. no. 43535, B 287/38)

Excerpts

Beginning

❖ oṃ namaḥ paradevatāyai ||

namo gaṇapataya ||

namo bhavānyai ||

namaḥ śrīnāṭeśvarāya ||

ku..(2)lasadaṃgāya, sadaṃgāya namo namaḥ ||

nāṭeśvarāya girijā, hṛdayānanda kāriṇe || (3 )

atha śrīkāśīvijayanāmanāṭakaṃ likhyate ||

tatrādau nāṭeśvara pratipādakaṃ gīta(4)m abhiprakāśyate ||

|| śūnya me || || rāga mālava || tāla jati ||

deva niraṃjana śiva(5)sumarilejata jiva,

helāya gelanti tridive, śrīviśvanātha ||

nahi jala nahi stha(6)la , eka hera niramala,

vaṃdo motāhāra caraṇe, śrīviśvanātha || (fol. 1v1–6)

«Middle:»

thvanali deśavarṇṇanā ||

sūtra – ahera(2v1)yi vṛndri dhanya 2 bhaktāpurī e bhaktāpurīra kichu mahimā kahitā suno ||

|| rāga rāma[ka](2) || tāla rupaka ||

sūra rājapurī sama bhaktāpurī sāje,

caṃḍikā bhairava jathā sarvvadā virā(3)je || ||

he bhāyivṛndi indrapurīyasadṛśa,

bhavānī bhairavera sthānaṃ, etā(4)dṛśa bhaktāpurī,

ihāte śrīśrīgaṃgādevīra mahimā kahite suno || me ||

ihā(5)te śrīgaṃgādevī baḍa puṇyavati,

sakala jācaka bole jāhāra kirati || || (6)

he vṛndī śrīśrīgaṃgādevīra mahimo kahilo,

akhana śrīśrītrailokya malladevera mahimā ka(7)hitā suno || me ||

śrīśrītrailokya malla nṛpa nānā śāstra jāne,

atiśaya dhārmmika guṇera nidhā(3r1)ne || ||

he vṛndī śrīśrītrailokya malladevera mahimā kaholo,

akhana śrīśrītribhuvaṇa mallade(2)vera mahimā kahitā suno || me ||

śrītribhuvana malla siṃhaparākrame

na,rapati madhya bhūpa a(3)tula vikrame || 3 ||

he vṛndī śrīśrītribhuvana malladevera mahimā kahilo,

e bhaktā(4)purīte kāśīvijayanāmnāṭaka pravatta hailo,

akhanatā dekhite jāvo || (fols. 2r7–3r4)

«Middle:»

gāe vipra rāmacaṃdra bhavānī caraṇe,

na(3)rapati tribhuvana māhera ramaṇe || 21 || (fol. 13r2–3)

vipra rāmacaṃdra bhāne,

nṛpa tribhu(5)vana rasa jāne || 42 || (fol. 23v4–5)

End

rāga paṃcama || jhumali ||

vārāṇasī purīma(7)dhye gaṃgā pāravati eduyisahite ahmi karivo mukuti ||

gāyalo vipra rāmacaṃdra kā(64v1)śīra caritra, jahā suni dekhilo, vicitre ||

śrītribhuvana malla nṛpatira tene,

ma(2)noratha siddhi haive māhera ramaṇe || 120 || lu 21 || me 14 || (fol. 64r6–64v2)

Colophon

iti śrīkāśīvijayanāmanāṭakaṃ ( 3 ) samāptaṃ ||

|| ۞ || śubham astu ||

saṃvat 717 || daśamī ravivāsare vaiśākha śukla(4)sya

likhitaṃ bhaktapaṭṭane, viśvarāmeṇa ||

gaṃgeśa girijā prītir astu || namo devyai || e || (fol. 64v2–4)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 345/10

Date of Filming 10-05-1972

Exposures 63

Slides

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by KT/JM

Date 02-12-2003

Bibliography

Dhakal, Beni Madhav (ed.)

1995Harikeli. Dang: Mahendra Sanskrit Viśvavidyālaya.

Shrestha, Rajit Bahadur (ed.)

2004Kāśīvijaya. Yala (Lalitpur): Hnū hisu pucaḥ, NS 1124.