B 299-4 Rāmāyaṇa

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 299/4
Title: Rāmāyaṇa
Dimensions: 49.2 x 11.8 cm x 112 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Rāmāyaṇa
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 4/1559
Remarks: 7; 57351-4=se

Reel No. B 299-4 Inventory No. 57354

Title Vālmīkirāmāyaṇa

Author Vālmīki

Subject Rāmāyaṇa

Language Sanskrit

Text Features Uttarakāṇḍa

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material paper

State incomplete

Size 50.0 x 12.0 cm

Folios 112

Lines per Folio 9–10

Foliation figures in lower left-hand margin and figures in lower right-hand margin on the verso

Scribe Devaśaṃkara

Date of Copying NS 813

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 4/1559

Manuscript Features

MS dated NS 813 is scribed by Devaśaṃkara to give Yadunandana.

Excerpts

Beginning

❖ oṃ namaḥ śrīrāmacandrāya ||

kauśalyānayanakumudenduṃ

daśarathahṛdayāravindamārttaṇḍaṃ |

sītāmānasahaṃsa (!)

rāmaṃ rājīvalocanaṃ vande ||

prāptarājyasya rāmasya, rākṣasānāṃ vadhe kṛte |

ājagmur ṛṣayaḥ siddhā rā(2)ghavaṃ pratinandituṃ |

aśito[[ṅgirā]]thayavakrītas caityas cyavana eva ca |

kando medhātitheḥ putraḥ pūrvvāṃ ye saṃsthitāṃ diśaṃ ||

svastyātreyotha bhagavān amucovimucas tathā ||

ājanmus te sahāgastyā yeśritā dakṣiṇāṃ diśaṃ || (fol. 1r1–2)

End

evam etad yathāvṛttaṃ, samutthāya samāhitaḥ |

śṛṇvan khyātiṃ ca kīrttiṃ ca, dharmmārthau ca samaśnūte |

rāmāyaṇaṃ govisargge, madhyāhne vā (3) samāhitaḥ |

sandhyāyām aparāhne (!) ca vācayan nāvasīdati || || 

gavāṃ śataṃ sakanaka śṛṃgiṇāṃ dade, (!)

ddine dine ceha phalaṃ samāpnuyāt | (!)

tad āpnuyād vigatabhayo vahūśrutaḥ, (!)

paṭhetu yo daśa(4)rathaputrasaṃbhavaṃ || (fol. 112r2–4)

Colophon

ity ārṣe rāmāyeṇe caturviṃśatisāhasrayāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ vālmīkīye śrīmad uttarakāṇḍe śrīrāmasvarggārohaṇaṃ nāma sarggaḥ || uttarakāṇḍaḥ samāptaḥ ||

|| śubhaṃ || ❖ samvat 813 mārggaśila (!) kṛṣṇacaturddaśī somavāra thva kuhnu svanihmavantāgṛhadvijaśrīdevaśaṃkareṇa rāmāyaṇa uttarakāṇda saṃpūrṇṇana cosyaṃ, vaṃlā nihma dvijavaraśrīyadunandanaju yāta viyā dina juro ||  || (fol. 112r4–6)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 299/4

Date of Filming 06-08-1972

Exposures 113

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by JU/MS

Date 21-10-2005

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