G 8-16 Chandomāṇikya

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: G 8/16
Title: Chandaḥsāra
Dimensions: 25.5 x 9.9 cm x 17 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Chandaḥśāstra
Date:
Acc No.:
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Reel No. G 8/16

Inventory No. 13426

Title Chandomāṇikya

Remarks

Author Tathāgatadāsa

Subject Chandaḥśāstra

Language Sanskrit

Text Features In the conclusion to his short treatise Tathāgatadāsa mentions Citrabhānu’s Chandaḥsundarikā, a hitherto unknown work on metrics, and confesses his indebtedness to it. Jñānaśrī[mitra], Jayadeva, Piṅgala and Ratnākaraśānti are also mentioned there. The Chandomāṇikya must have been written after Ratnākaraśānti’s Chandoratnākara but probably not very late than it, perhaps still in the 11th c. Cf. reel nos. A 20/12 and A 20/16.

Reference Dimitrov 200?

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material paper

State complete

Size 25.5 x 9.9 cm

Binding Hole none

Folios 16

Lines per Folio 7

Foliation figures in the lower right-hand margin of the verso

Owner / Deliverer Rajopadhyaya

Place of Deposit

Accession No.

Used for Edition yes (Dimitrov 200?)

Manuscript Features

After the third stanza in the concluding part of the Chandomāṇikya seven additional stanzas are to be read, in which metres consisting of one to seven syllables are illustrated. The colophon of the MS is written after these stanzas. Despite this, it is fairly certain that the seven stanzas were not composed by Tathāgatadāsa. Since they are missing in the older MSS of the Chandomāṇikya and the author himself mentions in the beginning of his work that he is not going to deal with such metres, it is clear that the seven stanzas are a later addition.

This MS abounds with scribal errors.

Excerpts

Beginning

❖ oṃ namaḥ śivāya ||

namo ʼstu munaye tasmai jagadarthāya jāgrate |
yasmin vinimayaḥ stheyān mithaḥ svārthapara[[ā]](2)rthayoḥ ||

cchandaso kriyate kāvyaṃ pareṣāñ ca parīkṣyate |
paṭhyate niravadyañ ca hṛdyañ cotpadyate padaṃ ||

api (3) śāstrāṇi jāvanto bahūni bahudhā budhāḥ |
tajjñena paribhūyante ʼśabdikā iva sāndikauḥ ||

vistarāj Jayadeva[[ā]](4)deś cchandasām okarād idaṃ |
uddhṛtya suparikṣyānyaiś cchandolakṣaṇavittameḥ ||

suvarṇṇer bbaddham akṣuṇṇaś cchandoma[[ā]](5)nikyam ujvalaṃ |
alakāroti bālānāṃ kaṇṭhānanam urogataṃ || (fol. 1v1–5)

End

cchandaḥsundarikām vilokya vipulāṃ śrīcitrabhānoḥ kṛti
jñānaśraśrījayade(4)vapiṅgal(⟪ā⟫)amatāc cādāya sāraṃ manāk |
śrīratnākaram apy agādham atulaṃ viṣvag vihyoddhṛtaṃ
cchandoratna(5)m anargham arghitagirā bhūyād vacobhūṣaṇaṃ ||

etan me sarasaṃ sakautukam abhispaṣṭaprasiddhākṣarair
akliṣṭai(6)r vvacanair aṣṭarvvaracanād utpannam udbhāvayan |
yaḥ ko ʼpi pratitākṣarapratibhayād aślokakāraḥ sva(7)yaṃ
so ʼpīnthaṃ ⁅bha⁆vatāt kavīndrasadasi prauḍhau girām īśvaraḥ ||

preṣaṇaṃ prāpya bhikṣūṇāṃ śrīkhasarppa(fol. 17v1)ṇacāriṇāṃ |
cchandomāṇikyam asrākṣīd upādhyāyas tathāgataḥ || e ||

yā śrīḥ ||
sā gauḥ ||

p⁅ānaṃ⁆ śreṣṭhaṃ |
deve (2) deyaṃ ||

bhūtānāṃ susvānāṃ ||
śobhārtham bhṛṅgālī ||

alibhacaś cyutarajaḥ |
prapatitaṃ suma⁅na⁆sāṃ ||

ṣaṭpada(3)nāde kāmavasante |
vidhyasi cetaḥ pānthavadhūnāṃ ||

ṣīnastanayugmaṃ śroṇī ca viśālā |
līlābha(4)ritāsyā ramyā ḍa⁅nu⁆madhyā ||

bahūtsukaviceṣṭā pramādaraṃ sā ca |
priyāsi mama kānte kumārala(5)litā tvaṃ || e || (fol. 17r3–17v5)

Colophon

iti cchandomāṇikyaṃ nāma cchandasāraśāstraṃ samāptaṃ || kṛtir upādhyāyaśrītathāgatadāsasya || śubha || (fol. 17v5)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. G 8/16

Date of Filming 20-09-1976

Exposures 20

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film negative

Remarks Fols. 5v and 6r are not microfilmed (exp. 6 has fols. 4v–5r and exp.7 has fols. 6v–7r).

Catalogued by DD

Date 15-07-2005

Bibliography

• Dimitrov, Dragomir (200?): Edition of the Chandomāṇikya.
• Dimitrov, Dragomir (200?): “Ratnākaraśānti’s Chandoratnākara and Tathāgatadāsa’s Chandomāṇikya.”, in: Felicitation volume for Professor Michael Hahn.