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.
