B 205-6 Skandapurāṇa

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 205/6
Title: Skandapurāṇa
Dimensions: 44 x 10 cm x 84 folios
Material: paper?
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Purāṇa
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/876
Remarks:

Reel No. B 205-6 Inventory No. 67097

Title Skandapurāṇa

Remarks The text covered is the Kāśīkhaṇḍa.

Author ascribed to Vyāsa

Subject Purāṇa

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material paper

State incomplete, available folios: 1–22, 24, 24, 25–84; the right half of the first folio is lost.

Size 4.0 x 10.0 cm

Folios 84

Lines per Folio 7

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

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 1/876

Manuscript Features

The MS contains the first 19 adhyāyas and the beginning of the 20^th.

The number 23 has not been assigned to any folio, while 24 has been assigned to two consecutive folios, but the text is continuous throughout.

Excerpts

Beginning

❖ oṃ namaḥ śivāya ||

śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ||

tan(!) manmahe maheśānaṃ, maheśānapriyārbbhaka(!) |

gaṇeśānaṃ karigaṇeśāna///

r adhaḥ sthāpitā,

yāvad dhātuvimuktidā syar(!) amṛtā yasyāṃ mṛtā jantavaḥ ||

yā nityaṃ trijagat pavitrataṭinītīre suraiḥ ⁅se⁆ ///

///gat ||

namas tasmai maheśāya, yasya saṃdhyātra yachalāt |

yātāyātaṃ prakurvvanti trija[ga]tpataye[ʼ]niśam || (fol. 1v1–3)

End

kaccid (gi)pan nago bhūtvā phaṇāṭopabhayānakaḥ |

atiloladvirasaraḥ prasphurjjitiviṣāgninā ||

kaścic ca mahiṣākāraḥ kṣipan śṛṃgābhratā girīn |

lāṃgulatālitadharaḥ śvasan vegāt tam āpnuyāt ||

kaścid davānalālīḍha(!), kharjjuradrumasannibha/// (fol. 84v6–7)

«Sub-colophon:»

iti śrīskandapurāṇe kāśīkhaṇḍe dhruvavarṇṇanaṃ nāmaikonaviṃśatitamo ʼdhyāyaḥ (fol. 83r7)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 205/6

Date of Filming 21-02-1972

Exposures 88

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks two exposures of fols. 24v–25r (the first folio numbered 24) and 66v–67r

Catalogued by BK

Date 28-01-2008

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