B 281-29 Pañcatantra

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 281/29
Title: Pañcatantra
Dimensions: 23.2 x 10.5 cm x 76 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit; Newari
Subjects: Nīti
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/414
Remarks:

Reel No. B 281-29 Inventory No. 42041

Title Pañcatantra

Subject Nīti

Language Sanskrit, Newari

Reference This text seems to be a copy of initial two tantras of the pañcatantra B 281/26

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper (loose)

State complete

Size 23.2 x 10.5 cm

Folios 75

Lines per Folio 6

Foliation figures in the left-hand margin lower side with the word rāma and right-hand margin upper side with the word pañca.

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 1/1678

Used for edition

Manuscript Features

Excerpts

Beginning

❖ oṃ namaḥ sarasvatyai ||

manave vācaspataye, śukrāya parāśarāya sa sutāya ca |

cānakyāya ca (2) viduṣe namostu nṛpaśāstrakarttṛbhyaḥ ||

munusataṃ bṛhaspasataṃ śukrasataṃ parāśarasataṃ vyāsa(3)sataṃ cānakya prabhṛti rājanīti dayakava munilokasataṃ, namaskāra thajura ||     ||

(fol. 1v1–3)

End

vanasa chaguḍi dahayā tīrasa hutra yuddha khanā hvatra (76r1) nehmaṃ thethesyaṃ moṅāna prahāra yāle moḍa mahī hāyāva bhūmīsa padarapra (2) svayāva gauchino nibuddhi jaṃbuka chalana hoḍa thethe yāṅa chāyā verasa (3) thva hī pheya yāṅa vananyāsyaṃ antarasa lāṅāva thva hoḍa nehmaṃsyaṃ jaṃbukayā(4)kenyāna prahāra yāṅāva thva prahāraṇa jaṃbuka sika ||     || (fol. 75v6–76r4)

«Sub–colophon:»

iti samāptam idaṃ mitralābhanāma prathama taṃ(54r1)traṃ ||     || ۞ ||     ||

thvanaṃli ava suhṛdbheda (2) nāma neguḍi taṃtra āraṃbha yāṅa he ||     ||     ||(fol. 53v6–54r2)

Colophon

(fol. )

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 281/29

Date of Filming 24-05-1972

Exposures 75

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by KT/JM

Date 30-03-2005

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