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'''Reel No.''' A 23-12

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'''Inventory No.''' 33643

'''Title''' Kīcakavadha

'''Author''' Nītivarman

'''Subject''' Kāvya

'''Language''' Sanskrit

'''Text Features''' a short poem in five chapters belonging to the ''yamakakāvya ''class of texts

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== Manuscript Details ==
'''Script''' Maithili

'''Material''' palm-leaf

'''State''' complete; the writing is partly rubbed off.

'''Size''' 36.5 x 3.5 cm

'''Binding Hole''' 1, rectangular, in the middle

'''Folios''' 13

'''Lines per Folio''' 4

'''Foliation''' figures in the middle of the right-hand margin after the word ''śrī'' on the verso

'''Place of Deposit''' NAK

'''Accession No.''' 1/1608

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== Manuscript Features ==
This MTM contains Nītivarman’s poem ''Kīcakavadha'' in full. The note “fragmentary” on the original index card is incorrect. Immediately after this text begins a copy of another ''yamakakāvya'', namely Mānāṅka’s poem ''Vṛndāvana'', of which only the first stanza and the first half of the second stanza are available, on fol. 13v3–4 (cf. A 23/12b).

The text of Nītivarman’s ''Kīcakavadha'' has been edited by De on the basis of two MSS in Bengali character from the collection of the Dacca University Manuscript Library.<ref name="ftn1"><sup>See De 1929; cf. NCC, vol. 4, s.v. ''kīcakavadha''.</sup></ref> The same publication contains an edition of Janārdanasena’s commentary ''Tatvaprakāśikā'' prepared from the MS of the India Office Library (IO 3931). De did not have access to Nepalese MSS.

== Excerpts ==

=== Beginning ===

⁅śrī haraye⁆ namaḥ&nbsp;|| 

jitaḥ sucaritochedī smaro yaṃ duḥsaho mayā&nbsp;|

itīva deham akarod abhinnaṃ yaḥ sahomayā&nbsp;||

bibhartti hāram anaghaṃ yo bhasmābhir (!) ahiṃ sitaṃ&nbsp;|

tejaś ca manmathaśarair indriyārthair ahiṃsitaṃ&nbsp;||

yasyā⁅hu⁆(2)r atigambhīrajalada⟪ḥ⟫pratimaṅ galaṃ&nbsp;|

<nowiki>sa vaḥ karo⁅tu⁆ niḥśaṅkaṃ [[hu]]dayaṃ</nowiki><ref name="ftn2"><sup>Read: ''niḥśaṃkam udayaṃ'' i.o. ''niḥśaṅkaṃ''<nowiki> [[</nowiki>''hu'']]''dayaṃ''.</sup></ref> prati maṅgalaṃ&nbsp;||

yā 〇 trilokanatā mūrttir upāyena jugopa tāṃ&nbsp;|

⁅yo vaha⁆t kaṃsanidhanaprayuktām ṛjugopatāṃ&nbsp;(3)&nbsp;||

babhāra vapur ambhojaprabhayā pūtanābhi yaḥ&nbsp;|

papāta karmmaṇā yasya prabhayā pūtanā bhiyaḥ&nbsp;〇&nbsp;||

sa punātu vraje yaś ca gorajaḥpātaru⁅kṣitau&nbsp;|

śiśu⁆r ucchidya jamajau<ref name="ftn3"><sup>Read: ''yamajau'' i.o. ''jamajau''.</sup></ref> niṣpipe(4)ṣa tarū kṣitau&nbsp;|| (fol. 1v1–4)

=== End ===

pathiṣu ca ku(2)ravo jalāśayānāṃ

saha kusumaprabhayāravindinān te&nbsp;|

bhayapihitadṛśa (!) pra⁅naṣ]ṭa⁅di⁆(śo

da)dṛśu〇r<ref name="ftn4"><sup>One short syllable, most probably before ''dadṛśur'', is missing. There either ''na'' or ''pra''° would have been expected.</sup></ref> astamitaṃ ravin dinānte&nbsp;||

iti bhavatu daśā tavāhitānāṃ

sakalamah⁅īja⁆yabhūta vāhitānāṃ&nbsp;|

(3)&nbsp;(śa)va<ref name="ftn5"><sup>Read: ''vasa'' i.o. (''śa'')''va''.</sup></ref> sukham u⁅da⁆yād ahīyamāna⁅ḥ⁆

sakaladharādharaṇād ahīyamānaḥ&nbsp;|| (fol. 13v1–3)

=== Sub-colophons ===

iti śrīkīcakavadhe mahākāvye prathamaḥ .. r.. .. .āptaḥ<ref name="ftn6"><sup>Read: ''<nowiki>*sarggaḥ sam</nowiki>āptaḥ*''.</sup></ref>&nbsp;|| (fol. 3r3)

i〇ti kīcakavadhe mahākāvye dvitīyaḥ sarggaḥ&nbsp;|| (fol. 5r2)

iti kīcakavadhe mahākābye tṛtīyaḥ sarggaḥ&nbsp;|| (fol. 8v2)

iti caturthaḥ sarggaḥ&nbsp;|| (fol. 12r2)

iti śrīn⟪i⟫ītivarmma kṛtau kī〇cakavadhe mahākāvye pañcamaḥ sarggaḥ&nbsp;|| (fol. 13v3)

== Microfilm Details ==

'''Reel No.''' A 23/12a

'''Date of Filming''' 04-09-1970

'''Exposures''' 16

'''Used Copy''' Berlin

'''Type of Film''' negative

'''Remarks''' Fols. 3–6 appear in the following order: fols. 2v–6r (exp. 4), fols. 6v–3r (exp. 5), fols. 3v–5r (exp. 6) fols. 5v–4r (exp. 7) and fols. 4v–7r (exp. 8). 

'''Catalogued by''' DD

'''Date''' 15-10-2003

'''Bibliography'''

De, Sushil Kumar

1929: ''The Kīcaka-Vadha of Nītivarman with the Commentary of Janārdanasena''. Edited from Original Manuscripts, With an Introduction, Notes and Extracts from the Commentary of Sarvānandanāga by Sushil Kumar De. Dacca 1929. (Dacca University Oriental Publications Series, No. 1).

''New Catalogus Catalogorum''

1968: ''New Catalogus Catalogorum.'' An Alphabetical Register of Sanskrit and Allied Works and Authors. Editor: V. Raghavan. Associate Editor: K. Kunjunni Raja. Volume Four. Madras 1968. (Madras University Sanskrit Series 29).

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