B 431-6 Manusmṛti

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 431/6
Title: Manusmṛti
Dimensions: 27.6 x 10.5 cm x 114 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Dharma(śāstra), incl. didactic portions of the epics, Purāṇas, etc.
Date: SAM 1903
Acc No.: NAK 5/1514
Remarks:

Reel No. B 431-6 Inventory No. 37719

Title Manusmṛti

Remarks an alternative title is Mānavadharmaśāstra

Author Manu

Subject Dharmaśāstra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State complete

Size 27.6 x 10.5 cm

Folios 114

Lines per Folio 9

Foliation figures on the verso; in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation ma. smṛ. and in the lower right-hand margin under the word śivaḥ

Date of Copying VS 1903

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 5/1514

Manuscript Features

There are two exposures of fols. 43v–44r.

Excerpts

Beginning

oṁ śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ||     ||

manu ekāgram āsīnam abhigamya maharṣayaḥ ||

pratipūjya yathyānyāyam idaṃ vacanam abruvan || 1 ||

bhagavan sarvavarṇānāṃ yathāvad anupūrvaśaḥ ||

aṃtaraprabhavāṇāṃ ca dharmmān no vaktum arhasi || 2 ||

tvam eko hy asya sarvasya vidhānasya svayaṃbhuvaḥ ||

aciṃtyasyāprameyasya kārtyyatattvārthavit prabho || 3 || (fol. 1v1–3)

End

eṣa sarvāṇi bhūtāni paṃcabhi[r] vyāpyamūrttibhiḥ ||

janmavṛddhikṣayai[r] nityaṃ saṃsārayati cakravat || 24 ||

evaṃ yaḥ sarvabhūteṣu paśyaty ātmānam ātmanā ||

sa sarvasamatām etya brahmābhyeti paraṃ padaṃ || 25 ||

ity etan mānavaṃ śāstraṃ bhṛguproktaṃ paṭhan dvijaḥ ||

bhavaty ācāravān nityaṃ yatheṣṭāṃ prāpnuyād gatiṃ || 125 || (fol. 114r7–114v1)

Colophon

iti śrīmānave dharmaśāstre bhṛguproktāyāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ dvādaśo dhyāyaḥ || 12 ||    ||     ||      ||

samvat 1903 sālamiti śrāvaśudi 13 roja 4 śubham ||     ||     || 2600 ||     || ❁ (fol. 114v1–2)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 431/6

Date of Filming 29-03-1973

Exposures 119

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by BK

Date 07-10-2009

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