B 284-8 Hitopadeśa

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 284/8
Title: Hitopadeśa
Dimensions: 27.6 x 7.5 cm x 116 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Nīti
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/413
Remarks:

Reel No. B 284-8 Inventory No. 23849

Title Hitopadeśa

Subject Nīti

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material paper

State Incomplete, missing, 8,9

Size 27.6 x 7.5 cm

Folios 116

Lines per Folio 6

Foliation figures in the middle right-hand margins of verso,Title: Hi. is in the upper left-hand margins of 1st folio,

Scribe Vīrabhadra

Date of Copying NS 782

Owner / Deliverer NAK

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 1/413

Manuscript Features

Fol.72,73, is dark and illegible,

Missing fol.8, 9,

Twice filmed fol. 40,60,

Excerpts

Beginning

oṃ namo hariharābhyāṃ || ||

siddhiḥ sādhye satām astu prasādāt tasya dhūrj-jaṭeḥ |

jāhnavīphenalekheva yanmū(2)rddhni śaśinaḥ kalā ||

śruto hitopado || yaṃ(!) pāṭavaṃ saṃskṛtoktiṣu ||

vācāṃ sarvatra vaicitryaṃ nītividyāṃ dadāti ca || 2 ||

(3)ajarāmaravat prājño vidyā marthaṃ ca ciṃtayet ||

gṛhīta iva keśeṣu, mṛtyunā dharmmam ācaret ||

sarvadravyeṣu vidyai(4)va dravyam āhur anuttamaṃ ||

ahāryatvād akṣayatvād anarghatvā (!) ca sarvadā || (fol. 1v1–4)

End

prālayādreḥ sutāyāḥ praṇaya nivasati candramauliḥ sa yāvat

yāval-lakṣmīr m-murārer j-ja(4)laḍa (!) iva taḍin mānasaṃ visphurantī |

yāvat svarṇācaloyaṃ davadahana mamo yasya sūryyaḥ sphuliṃgas

tāvan-nārā(5)yaṇena pracaratu caritaḥ saṃgrahoyaṃ kathānāṃ ||

aparaṃca ||

śrīmān dhavalacandro ʼsau, jīyān māṇḍaliko ripūn(6) |

yenāyaṃ samgraho yatnāl-lekhayitvā pracāritaḥ || ||(fol. 115v3–6)

Colophon

iti hitopadeśe sandhir n-nāma caturthakathāsaṃgrahaḥ samāptaḥ || ||

(1)nepālābda gatepakṣa, vasusāgarasaṃyute |

ākhāḍha śukla bhūtāyāṃ, vīrabhadro vyalīlikhat || 7 ||

yādṛṣṭaṃ pustakaṃ dṛṣṭvā (2)…nadīyate || || śrībhavānīśaṃkarābhyān-namaḥ || śubha || (3)śrī śrī śrī (fol. 115v6–116r3)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 284/8

Date of Filming 26-05-1972

Exposures 115

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by JU\MS

Date 25-04-2005

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