C 18-8 Bhāgavata(purāṇa)
Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: C 18/8
Title: Bhāgavata[purāṇa]
Dimensions: 35 x 5 cm x 203 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Purāṇa
Date: NS 844
Acc No.: Kesar 173
Remarks:
Reel No. C 18/8
Inventory No. 81422
Title Bhāgavata[purāṇa]
Remarks daśamaskanda
Author Vevavyāsa
Subject Purāṇa
Language Sanskrit
Manuscript Details
Script Newari
Material palm-leaf
State incomplete, missing fols. are 115, 156 and 191
Size 35.0 x 5.0 cm
Binding Hole 1 in the somewhat centre
Folios 200
Lines per Folio 5
Foliation figures in the middle of the right-hand margin on the verso
Date of Copying SAM 844
Place of Deposit Kaiser library
Accession No. 173
Manuscript Features
Excerpts
Beginning
❖ oṃ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya || oṃ namo nārāyaṇāyaḥ (!) || śrīkṛṣṇāya namaḥ || rājovāca ||
kathito vaṃśavistāro, bhavatā somasūryayoḥ |
rājñā (!) cobhayavaṃśyānāṃ caritaṃ paramādbhutaṃ ||
yadoś ca dharmmaśīlasya nitarāṃ munisattama |
tatrāṃśenāvatīrṇṇasya viṣṇor vvīryyāṇi śaṃsa naḥ ||
avatīryya yador vvaṃśe bhagavān bhūtabhāvanaḥ |
kṛtavān yāni viśvātā tāni no vada vistarāt ||
nivṛrttatarṣair upagīyamānād
bhavauṣadhāc chrotramanobhirāmāt |
ka uttamaḥślokaguṇānuvādā,t (!)
pumān virajjyeta vinā paśudhnāt || (fol. 1v1–3)
End
itthaṃm (!) parasya nijadharmmarirakṣayātta-
līlātanos tadanurūpaviḍambanāni |
karmāṇi kramakaṣaṇāni yadūttamasya
śrūyād amuṣya padayor anuvṛttim icchan |
matyas tathā nanū samedhitayā mukunda,
śrīmatkathāśravaṇakīrttanacintayeti (!) |
daddhāmadustarakṛtāntajarāpavarggaṃ, (!)
grāmād vanaṃ kṣitibhojo pi yaur yadārathāḥ (!) || (fol. 203v2–3)
Colophon
… haribhaktir astu śubhaṃ || sambat 844 māghakṛṣṇāpaṃcamī citrānakṣatra bhājudevanathavatāro cakāvatayā || (ṅākṣa 1036 vida) || (fol. 203v4–5)
Microfilm Details
Reel No. C 18/8
Date of Filming 11-12-1975
Exposures 209
Used Copy Kathmandu
Type of Film positive
Remarks two exposures of fols. 62v–63r, 105v–106r, 149v–150r
Catalogued by BK
Date 05-03-2007
