B 284-9 Hitopadeśa

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 284/9
Title: Hitopadeśa
Dimensions: 23.3 x 7.8 cm x 132 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Nīti
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 5/3474
Remarks:

Reel No. B 284-9 Inventory No. 23844

Title Hītopadeśa

Subject Nīti

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material paper

State incomplete, missing 1st folio,

Size 23.3 x 7.8 cm

Folios 132

Lines per Folio 7

Foliation figures in the middle right-hand margins of verso

Date of Copying NS 781

Owner / Deliverer NAK

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 5/3474

Manuscript Features

Missing 1st folio,

Twice filmed fol. 9, 10, 89,

Excerpts

Beginning

–d iha kathyate ||

mitralābhaḥ suhṛdbhedo, vigrahaḥ sandhir eva caḥ (!) |

pañcatantrāt tathānyasmād granthād ākṛ(2)ṣya liṣyate ||

asti bhāgīrathītīre, pāṭalīputraṇāmadheyaṃ(!) nagaraṃ |

tatra sarvvasvāmi guṇopeta(3)ḥ sudarśano nāma narapatir āsīt, sa ca nṛpati, ekadā kenāpi paṭhyamānaṃ, ślokadvayaṃ śuśrāva(4) ||

anekasaṃśayocchedi, parokṣārthasya darśakaṃ |

sarvvasya locanaṃ śāstraṃ, yasya nāsty andha eva saḥ || (!) (fol. 2r1–4)

End

prāleyādreḥ sutāyāḥ praṇayani(1)vasatiś candramauliḥ sa yāvad

yāvallakṣmīr m-murāre jalada iva taḍin mānase visphuliṃgas

tāva(2)n nārāyaṇena pracaratu caritaḥ saṃgrahoyaṃ kathānāṃ ||

aprañ ca ||

śrīmān dhavalacandrosau, jīyā(3)n māṇḍaliko ripūn |

yenāyaṃ saṃgraho yatnāl-lekhayitvā pracāritaḥ || || (fol. 132v7–133r3)

Colophon

|| iti hitopadeśe(4) sandhirnnāma caturthaḥ kathāsaṃgrahaḥ samāptaḥ || || samvat 781 pauṣa śukla daśamyān tithau ||(5) saṃpūrṇṇā likhitaṃ || śubham astu || (fol.133r3–5)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 284/9

Date of Filming 26-05-1972

Exposures 136

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by JU\MS

Date 25-04-2005

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