B 211-3 Bṛhannāradīyapurāṇa
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Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: B 211/3
Title: Bṛhannāradīyapurāṇa
Dimensions: 48 x 10.5 cm x 115 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Purāṇa
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 4/1579
Remarks:
Reel No. B 211-3 Inventory No. 13106
Title Bṛhannāradīyapurāṇa
Subject Purāṇa
Language Sanskrit
Manuscript Details
Script Newari
Material paper
State incomplete; available folios: 4–83,83–117
Size 48.0 x 10.5 cm
Folios 115
Lines per Folio 9
Foliation figures in the middle right-hand margin on the verso
Folio number 83 is assigned twice; the second folio numbered 83 was filmed at the end (on exp. 118b and 119), and the text on it precedes that on the first folio of the same number filmed in sequential order.
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 4/1579
Manuscript Features
The text starts from the very beginning and runs up to the middle of the 38th adhyāya. The foliation, however, begins with the number 4. The number 83 has been assigned to two successive folios.
Excerpts
Beginning
❖ oṃ namo nārāyaṇāya ||
vaṃde vṛṃdāvanāsīna,m iṃdirānaṃdam iṃdiraṃ ||
upendraseṃdrakāruṇyaṃ, parānaṃdavibhuṃ paraṃ ||
brahmāviṣṇumaheśādyā, yasyāṃgā lokasādhakāḥ ||
tam ādidevaṃ cidrūpaṃ, viśuddhaṃ paramaṃ bhaje || ||
sūta uvāca ||
śaunakādyā mahātmāna, ṛṣayo brahmavādinaḥ |
naimiṣākhye mahāraṇye tapas tepur mumukṣavaḥ || (fol. 4r1–2)
End
haripūjāparāṇāṃ ca, śivapūjāratātmanāṃ ||
nyūnātirikto(!) na syā,n na ca karmmasu paṇḍitāḥ ||
sakṛd apy uccaraṃty eva, harer nnāma kalau yuge ||
te kṛtārthā mahātma(!)nas, teṣā(!) nityaṃ namo namaḥ ||
ity etad vaḥ samākhyātaṃ, nāradena prabhāṣitaṃ ||
sanatkumāramunayo, bṛhatnā-/// ||| || (fol. 117v8–9 )
Sub-colophon
iti śrībṛhannāradīye purāṇe prathamo dhyāyaḥ || 1 || (fol. 6v4)
iti śrībṛhannāradīye purāṇe saptatriṃśo ʼdhyāyaḥ || 37 || (fol. 113v4)
Colophon
Microfilm Details
Reel No. B 211/3
Date of Filming 24-07-1972
Exposures 120
Used Copy Kathmandu
Type of Film positive
Remarks two exposures of fols. 56v–57r and 84v–85r
Catalogued by MS
Date 24-01-2008
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