A 50-3 Āhnikaprakaraṇa
Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: A 50/3
Title: Āhnikaprakaraṇa
Dimensions: 33 x 4.5 cm x 32 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Maithili
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Karmakāṇḍa (vaidika, āgamika, tāntrika etc.)
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/455
Remarks:
Reel No. A 50-3
Inventory No. 1548
Title [Āhnikaprakaraṇa]
Remarks
Author
Subject Karmakāṇḍa
Language Sanskrit
Text Features Text about daily ceremonies (āhnika), quotes authorities such as Manu and Devala, the Vāyu- and Bhāgavatapurāna, as well as Vedic mantras.
Manuscript Details
Script Maithili
Material palm-leaf
State incomplete, damaged
Size 33.0 x 4.5 cm
Binding Hole 1, rectangular, left of centre
Folios 32
Lines per Folio 5
Foliation figures in the middle of both margins of the verso
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 1/455
Manuscript Features
The following folios are extant: 2-32. Fol. 3 is damaged in the left-hand margin. There is one more fragmentary folio of this MS which is probably fol. 1 (the beginning and the foliation being lost through physical damage).
The scribe has a peculiar way of writing the letter ka, varying between the usual form of this akṣara in the Maithili script and an unusual form being similar to the letter ma in the Brahmi script (a little circle with to “bull's horns”).
Excerpts
Beginning
- ryān maitraṃ mareśvara |
- nairṛtyāmi(śra)vikṣepam atītyābhyadhikaṃ bhuvaḥ |
maitraṃ purīṣotsargaḥ | mi(tra)devatā (rū)pāyusambandhāt | nairṛtyāṃ(śa)……sthānāt | ā(rpagu)..ḥ | mitra……….ryād dakṣiṇāṃ diśaṃ dakṣiṇāparāṃ vā | gatveti śeṣaḥ dakṣiṇāparā ○ nairṛtī | tathāstam ite bahirgrāmād ārāc cāvasathān mūtrapurīṣakarma varjjayet ārād dūre āvasathāt gṛhāt | atra vāyupurāṇe
- śuṣkais tṛṇair vā kāṣṭhair vā ○ pattrair veṇudalena vā
- mṛṇmayair bhājanair vvāpy antarddhāya vasundharāṃ<ref>Cf. Vāyupurāṇa, uttarārdha 16.60.</ref> |
tṛṇaiḥ kuśādivyatiraktaiḥ (!) kāṣṭhaiḥ palāśādivyatiriktaiḥ | tṛṇamayājñikaṃ kāṣṭham i○ty āpastambavacanāt | manuḥ
- mūtroccārasamutsarga⁅ṃ di⁆vā kuryād udaṅmukhaḥ |
- dakṣiṇābhimukho +++..yoś ca yathā divā<ref>Cf. Manusmṛti 4.51: … | dakṣiṇābhimukho rātrau saṃdhyayoś ca ...</ref> |
evañ ca manunā sarva kālavyāpi mukhaniyam avidhānāt pratyaṅmukhas tu pūrvāhne ʼparāhne prāṅmukhas tathā udaṅmukhas tu madhyāhne niśāyāṃ dakṣiṇāmu++++vacana⁅ṃ⁆
- sad⁅ai⁆vodaṅmukhaḥ prātaḥ sāyāhne dakṣiṇāmukha
iti devalavacanañ ca nādarttavyaṃ
(fol. 2r1-v1)
End
oṁ apo devā madhumatīr agṛbhṇann ūrjasvatī rājasva śvitānāḥ yābhir mitrāvaruṇāv abhy aṣiñcan yābhir indram anayann a○..tīḥ oṁ kūpadādi vetyādi oṁ san no devīr abhiṣṭhaya āpo bharantu pītaye śaṃ yor (!) abhi sravantu naḥ | oṁ apāṃ rasam u(da)yaṃ saṃ sūrye santaṃ samāhitaṃ apāṃ rasasya ○ yo rasas tad yo gṛhṇāty uttamaṃ | oṁ apo devīr upasṛja madhumatīr ayakṣmāya prajābhyaḥ tāsām āsānād varjji(ha)tām oṣadhayaḥ supip(p)alāḥ oṁ punantu mā pitaraḥ ○ somyāsaḥ punantu mā pitāmahāḥ punantu mā prapitāmahāḥ pavitreṇa śatāyuṣā punantu mā pitāmahāḥ punantu prapitāmahāḥ pavitreṇa śatāyuṣā viśvam āyur vvyaśnuvai | oṁ agna āyūṃṣi pavasa ā svorjjantum iyañ ca naḥ āre bādhasva (du)hanāṃ | oṁ punantu mā de
(fol. 32v1-5)
Extracts
- yām upetyāpagataḥ pṛthaṅmatiḥ |<ref>Cf. Bhāgavatapurāṇa 4.9.30–39.</ref>
- aho bata mamānātmyaṃ mandabhāgyasya paśyata |
- bhavacchidaḥ pādamūlaṃ gatvāyāce yad antavat |
- matir ⁅vi⁆.. ///
- ḥ |
- daivīṃ māyām upāśritya prasupta iva bhinnadṛk |
- tapye dvitīye py asati bhrātṛbhrātṛvyahṛdrujā |
- mayaitat prā..///
- |
- bhavacchidam ayāce haṃ bhavaṃ bhāgyavivarjjitaḥ |
- svārājyaṃ yaccato (!) mauḍhyān māno me bhikṣito bata |
- (ī)śvarāt kṣīṇa///
- ndayo
- +++⁅ṣa⁆s tāta bhavādṛśā janāḥ |
- vā(ñ)cchanti taddāsyam ṛte ʼrtham ātmano
- yadṛcchayā labdhamanaḥsamṛddha///
- ⁅ku⁆to mama |
- śraddhāya vā(k)yaṃ devarṣer harṣavegena dha⁅rsi⁆taḥ |
- vārttāhartur atiprītyā (!) hāraṃ prādān mahādhanaṃ |
- sa⁅da⁆///<ref>This fragmentary folio might be folio 1 of the MS.</ref>
(exp. 36 = fol. 1r?1-5)
Microfilm Details
Reel No. A 50/3
Date of Filming 21-10-1970
Exposures 37
Used Copy Berlin
Type of Film negative
Remarks
Catalogued by OH
Date 22-10-2007
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