B 299-7 Rāmāyaṇa

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 299/7
Title: Rāmāyaṇa
Dimensions: 32.2 x 14.8 cm x 232 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Rāmāyaṇa
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 3/63
Remarks: 2; B297/6+299

Reel No. B 299-7 Inventory No. 57356

Title Vālmīkirāmāyaṇa

Author Vālmīki

Subject Rāmāyaṇa

Language Sanskrit

Text Features Ayodhyākāṇḍa

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State incomplete

Size 37.5 x 15.5 cm

Folios 227

Lines per Folio 9

Foliation figures in upper left-hand and lower right-hand margin on the verso under the marginal title: rā. a. and rāma

Date of Copying [VS] 1783

Place of Copying Gorṣā (Gorakhā)

King Narabhūpāla Śāha

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 3/63

Manuscript Features

MS dated śāke 1648 rāma śubham astu (fol. 70v8) and VS 1783 (fol. 232v)

Excerpts

Beginning

śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || || rāmāya namaḥ || ||

gacchatā mātulakulaṃ bharatena tadānaghaḥ |

śatrughno nitya śatru(2)ghno nītaḥ prītipuraskṛtaḥ ||

mātulenāśvapatinā putrasnehena lālitaḥ |

tatrāpi nivasaṃ tau tau tarppamāṇau (3) ca kāmataḥ |

bhrātarau smaratāṃ vīrau vṛddhaṃ daśarathaṃ nṛpaṃ |

rājāpi tau mahātejā sasmāra proṣitau sutau |

ubhau (4) bharata śatrughnau maheṃdravaruṇopamau |

sarva eva tu tasyeṣṭāś catvāraḥ puruṣarṣabhāḥ | (fol. 1v1–4)

End

ukṣiṣṭaṃ (!) vā pramattaṃ vā tāpasaṃ dharmacāriṇaṃ ||

adaṃtyasmin mahāraṇye tān nivāraya rāghava (3) ||

eṣa paṃthā maharṣīṇāṃ phalānyāharatāṃ vane ||

anena tu vanaṃ durgaṃ gaṃtuṃ rāghava te kṣamaṃ ||

itī(4)va taiḥ prāṃjalibhis tapasvibhir

dvijaiḥ kṛta svastyayanaḥ paraṃtapa |

vanaṃ sabhāryaḥ pravi(5)veśa rāghavaḥ

salakṣmaṇaḥ sūrya ivābhramaṃḍalaṃ || ||(fol. 232v2–5)

Colophon

ityārṣe rāmāyaṇe vālmīki(6)nā viracite ayodhyākāṇḍe ekonaviṃśatyuttaraśatatamaḥ sarggaḥ || || saṃvat 17(7)(83) samaya kārttika saptamyāṃ śukravāsare liṣitaṃ gorṣāgrāme narabhūpāla sāha rā(8)jye bhojyamāne śubhaṃ || 2 || rāmakṛṣṇagovindasahāya || || || || || || || (fol. 232v5–8)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 299/7

Date of Filming 08-06-1972

Exposures 232

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks twice filmed fol. 22, 70, 77, 76, / missing fols. 71-75

Catalogued by JU/MS

Date 21-10-2005

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