B 211-6 Brahmapurāṇa

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 211/6
Title: Brahmapurāṇa
Dimensions: 27 x 10.5 cm x 176 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Purāṇa
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 5/5766
Remarks:

Reel No. B 211-6 Inventory No. 12567

Title Brahmapurāṇa

Subject Purāṇa

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State incomplete, missing fols. 42v–43r, 63r–6v

Size 27.0 x 10.5 cm

Folios 168

Lines per Folio 7

Date of Copying SAM 1878

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 5/5766

Manuscript Features

Text is available from the fol. 2r and available up to the chapter Kaṇḍorupākhyāna-puruṣottamakṣetramāhātmya.

Folio after 18 is not foliated and foliation 18 added later in the lower right-hand corner. then after foliation continues from 19.

Folio 82 miss foliated twice.

Foliation from the 90 figures added in the lower right-hand corner of the verso

Excerpts

Beginning

śataśo tha jalair dhautaṃ sur⟪o⟫ābhāṇḍam ivāśuciḥ ||

na tīrthāni na dānāni na vratāni na cāśramāḥ |

duṣṭāśayaṃ dambharuciṃ punanti vyathitendriyaṃ ||

indriyāṇi vaśīkṛtvā yatra tatra vaśen naraḥ ||

tatra tasya kurukṣetraṃ prayāgam puṣkaraṃ tathā ||

tac chṛṇudhvaṃ pravakṣyāmi tīrthāny āyatanāni ca |

saṃkṣepeṇa muniśreṣṭhāḥ pṛthivyāṃ yāni kāni vai | 9 || (fol. 2r1–3)

End

evaṃ mayā muniśreṣthāḥ kūrmmabhūmir udāhṛtāḥ |

mokṣakṣetrañ ca paraman devañ ca puruṣottamaṃ ||

ye paśyanti vibhuṃ stuvanti varadaṃ dhyāyanti muktipradaṃ

bhaktyā śrīpuruṣottamākhyaṃ ajaraṃ saṃsāraduḥkhāpahaṃ |

te bhuktvā manujendrabhogam amalāḥ svarge ca divyaṃ sukhaṃ

paścād yānti samastadoṣarahitāḥ sthānaṃ harer avyayaṃ || ❁ || || (fol. 179r7–179v2)

Colophon

ity ādibrahmapurāṇe svayambhuṛṣisamvāde kaṇḍor upākhyānaṃ samāptaṃ || ❁ || iti puruṣottamakṣetramāhātmyaṃ samāptaṃ ||       || ❁ || rāma rāmarāmarāmarāmarāmarāmarāmarāmarāmarāmarāmarāmarāmarāmarāmarāmarāmarāmeti śubham || ❁ || saṃvat 1878 bhādrapadaśukla||paurṇamāśyān(!) tithau || maṃgalavāsaradine likhita(!) sampūrṇaṃ śubham ||

yādṛśaṃ pustakaṃ dṛṣtvā tādṛśaṃ likhitaṃ mayā

yadi śuddham āśuddho vā kṣamyatāṃ madhusūdanaḥ(!) ||

||      || ❁ || ❁ || ❁ || ❁ || ❁ || ❁ || (fol. 179v2–5)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 211/6

Date of Filming 24-02-1972

Exposures 181

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks two exposures of fols.  44v–45r

Catalogued by MS

Date 28-01-2008

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