A 1335-2 Śiśupālavadha
Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: A 1335/2
Title: Śiśupālavadha
Dimensions: 30 x 5 cm x 16 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Kāvya
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Reel No. A 1335-2
Inventory No. 102614
Title Śiśupālavadha
Subject Kāvya
Language Sanskrit
Manuscript Details
Script Devanagari
Material palm-leaf
State incomplete
Size 30.0 x 5.0 cm
Binding Hole 1, left of the centre
Folios 16
Lines per Folio 5
Foliation figures in the left margin of the verso
Date of Copying
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 6-2704
Manuscript Features
Extant folios are: 57, 62-66, 68, 72, 74-76, 78, 79, 82, 86, 87. Some are slightly damaged.
The script shows some influence of Newari, but most characters look like Devanagari characters.
On the last page, a sixth line has been squezed in beneath the usual writing area.
Excerpts
Beginning
pulakodayakomalaṃ cakāśe |
parimalitam api priyaiḥ prakāmaṃ kucayugam ujvalam eva kāminīnām || 70 ||
aviratakusumāvacāyakhedān nihita bhujālatayaikayopakaṃṭham |
vipulataraniraṃtarāvamagnastanapihitapriyacakṣasā(!) lal⟪ā⟫aṃbe || 71 ||
abhimatam abhitaḥ kṛtāṃgabhaṃgā kucayugam unnativittam unnama(yya) |
tanur abhilaṣitaṃ klamachalena vyavṛṇuta vellitabāhuvallarīkā || 72 ||
himalavasadṛśaḥ śramodabiṃdūn apanayatā kila nūtanoḍhavadhvāḥ |
kucakalaśakiśorakau kathaṃ cit taralatayā taruṇena pa⟪ṭa⟫spṛśāte || 73 ||
gaṃ(ndho)drekajaghanapuline ruddhamadhyapradeśaḥ
krāman nūrukrumabhujalatāḥ pūrṇṇanābhīhradāntaḥ |
ullaṃghyoccaiḥ kucataṭabhuvaḥ plāvayan nomakūpān(!)
svedāpūro yuvatisaritāṃ vyāpa gaṃḍasthalāni || 74 || (fol. 57r1-57v1)
«Sub-Colophons»
iti śiśupālavadhe mahākāvye kusumakrīḍā nāma saptamaḥ sarggaḥ || || (fol. 57v2)
iti śiśupālavadhe mahākāvye salilakrīḍā nāmāṣṭamaḥ sarggaḥ || || (fol. 64v3)
śiśupālavadhe mahākāvye caṃdrodayo nāma navamaḥ sarggaḥ || || (fol. 72v3)
iti śiśupālavadhe mahākāvye pratyuṣavarṇṇano nāmaikādaśamaḥ sargaḥ || cha || (fol. 87v3)
End
itthaṃ rathāśvebhaniṣādināṃ prage gaṇo nṛpāṇā(m atha) toraṇād bāhiḥ |
prasthānakālakṣamaveṣakalpanākṛtakṣatākṣepam udaikṣatācyutaṃ || 1 ||
svakṣaṃ supatraṃ kanakojvaladyutijavena nāgān jitavavantam(!) uccakaiḥ |
āruhya tā(rkṣya)an nabhasīva bhūtale yayāv anudghātasukhena so dhvanā || 2 ||
hastasthito khaṃḍitacakraśālinaṃ dvijeṃdrakāṃtāḥ śitacakṣasaḥ(!) śriyā
satyānuraktaṃ narakasya jiṣṇavo guṇair nṛpāḥ śārṃgiṇam anvayāsiṣuḥ || 3 ||
śuklaiḥ sutārair mukulīkṛtaiḥ sthulaiḥ kumudvatīnāṃ kumudākarair iva |
vyuṣṭa 2 (?) (fol. 87v3-6)
Microfilm Details
Reel No. A 1335/2
Date of Filming 01-09-1988
Exposures
Used Copy Berlin
Type of Film positive
Catalogued by AM
Date 15-02-2011
