A 353-23 Bhāratīyanāṭyaśāstra

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 353/23
Title: Bhāratīyanāṭyaśāstra
Dimensions: 34 x 13 cm x 186 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Nāṭaka and Nāṭyaśāstra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 5/1140
Remarks:

Reel No. A 353-23 Inventory No. 10382

Title Bhāratīyanāṭyaśāstra

Author Bharata

Subject Nāṭaka

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State complete

Size 22.0 x 8.0 cm

Folios 186

Lines per Folio 9

Foliation figures in the upper left-hand margin under the abberviation bharatanā and in the lower right-hand margin under the word guruḥ on the verso

Place of Deposit NAK

Date of copy NS 947

Accession No. 5/1140

Manuscript Features

Excerpts

Beginning

oṃ namo brahmaṇe ||  ||

praṇamya śirasā devau pitāmahamaheśvarau ||

nāṭyaśāstraṃ pravakṣyāmi brahmaṇā yad udāhṛtaṃ ||

samāptaja(2)pyaṃ vratinaṃ svasutaiḥ parivāritaṃ ||

anādhyāye kadācit tu bharataṃ nāṭyakovidaṃ ||

munayaḥ paryyupāsyainam ātreyapramukhāḥ purā ||

pa(3)pracchus te mahātmāno nāṭyavedasamudbhavaṃ ||

yo yaṃ bhagavatā samyag gathito(!) vedasammataḥ;||

nāṭyavedaḥ kathaṃ Brahmann utpannaḥ kasya (4) vā kṛte;||

katyaṃgaḥ kiṃpramāṇaś ca prayogaś cāsya kīdṛśaḥ;||

sarvam etad yathātatvaṃ bhagavan vaktum arhasi;||;(fol. 1v1–4)

End

eavaṃ nāṭyaprayoge bahuvidhavihitaṃ karmaśāstrapraṇītaṃ

noktaṃ yat tac ca lokād anukṛtikaraṇāt saṃvibhāvyaṃ tu tajjñaiḥ||

kiṃ (6) cānyat sasyapūrṇā bhavatu vasumatī naṣṭadurbhikṣarogā

śāṃtiṃ (!) gobrāhmaṇebhyo bhavatu narapatiḥ pātu pṛthvīṃ samagrāṃ || 1||

mahāpuṇyaṃ praśastaṃ ca (7) lokānāṃ na parotsavaṃ ||

nāṭyaśāstraṃ samāptvedaṃ (!) bharatasya yaśovahaṃ || 2|| || (fol. 186r5–7)

Colophon

iti bhāratīye nāṭyaśāstre tatvanidhāno nāmādhyāyaḥ (8) paṃcatriṃśad iti || ||

samāptaṃ bhāratīyaṃ nāṭyaśāstraṃ ||

śubham astu || |

(186v1) svastiśrīmajjanaralabhīmasenājñayā tvarā |

tad bhāratīyaṃ nepālasaṃvad adriyugāṃkagā (!) ||

(2) caitrī rākā budhadinaṃ meṣasaṃkramaṇaṃ yadā ||

catuḥśatādhikāśītyā śrīmannepālahāyane ||

(3) likhitā tāḍapatrīyā bhojismolābhidhā lipiḥ ||

dṛṣṭvā nāmalikhad bauddhaḥ sasutaḥ suṃdarā(4)bhidhaḥ ||

bhūyāt samṛddhidaṃ (!) rājye maṃtrikule vivṛddhikṛt ||

āyurārogyajananaṃ kṣemakāri(!) ca (5) sarvathā || ||

śubham astu || śrīgurvarpaṇam astu || . ||

śrīsarasvatī prasannāstu || ||

6) vidvanpadmanidhis tāvat ta⟪tta⟫tpustakaśodhakaḥ ||

bhīmasenaprītipātraṃ taptas te tasya pustakaṃ || 1 ||

(7)likhāpayati tat tadā || 1 || pāṭhaḥ || (fol. 186r7–186v7)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 353/23

Date of Filming 17-05-1972

Exposures 194

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks two exposures of fols. 14v–15r, 32v–33r, 46v–47r, 92v–93r, 161v–162r and three exposures of fols. 158v-159r

Catalogued by BK/JU

Date 21-09-2005

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