B 205-2 Skandapurāṇa
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Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: B 205/2
Title: Skandapurāṇa
Dimensions: 48.5 x 11.5 cm x 285 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Purāṇa
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 5/5351
Remarks: Kāśīkhaṇḍa; I
Reel No. B 205-2 Inventory No. 67085
Title Skandapurāṇa
Remarks The text covered is the Kāśīkhaṇḍa.
Author attributed to Vyāsa
Subject Purāṇa
Language Sanskrit
Manuscript Details
Script Newari
Material paper
State complete
Size 48.5 x 11.5 cm
Folios 285
Lines per Folio 10
Foliation figures in the middle of the right-hand margin on the verso
Scribe Viṣṇu Deva
Date of Copying SAM (NS) 829
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 5/5351
Manuscript Features
There are four complete leaves and two half-broken leaves before the text of the
Kāśīkhaṇḍa begins. The first two, from a different MS written in a different hand, contain an unidentified part of the Skandapurāṇa, the second two contain the complete Nṛsiṃhakavaca, and the last two (broken) leaves contain a passage from an unidentified Purāṇa text.
Excerpts
Beginning
❖ oṃ namaḥ śrīkṛṣṇāyaḥ(!) ||
oṃ śrīkāśīpataye namaḥ || ||
nārāyaṇaṃ namaskṛtya, narañ caiva narottamaṃ |
devīṃ sarasvatīñ caiva, tato jayam udīrayet ||
tan manmahe maheśānaṃ maheśānapriyārbhakaṃ |
gaṇeśānaṃ karigaṇeśānānanam anāmayaṃ ||
bhūmiṣṭhāpi na yātra bhūs tridivato[ʼ]py uccairadhaḥsthāpi ⟪tā⟫[[yā]]
yāvad dhātu vimuktidā syur amṛtā yasyāṃ mṛtā jantavaḥ |
yā nityan trijagatpavitrataṭinītire sūraiḥ sevyate,
sā kāśī tripurārirājanagarī, pāpād apāyāj jagat || (fol. 1r1–3)
End
etac chravaṇataḥ puṃsāṃ sarvvatra vijayo bhavet |
so(!)bhāgyaṃ vāpi sarvatra prāpnuyān nirmmalāśayaḥ ||
yasya viśveśvaratuṣṭas tasyaitacchravaṇe matiḥ |
jāyate puṇyayuktasya, mahānirmmalacetasaḥ ||
sarvveṣāṃ maṅgalānāñ ca, mahāmaṅgalam uttama (!) ||
gṛhe[ʼ]pi likhitaṃ pūjyaṃ, sarvvamaṅgalasiddhaye || || (fol. 285v5–7)
Colophon
iti śrīskandapurāṇe kāśīkhaṇḍe anukramaṇikādhyāyo nāma śatatamo[ʼ]dhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ || 100 || || samvat 829 caitraśuklayā daśami(ṣpa)kṣa nakhetra, atigaṃdhayoga, bṛhaspati vāla, thva kunhu saṃpūrṇṇa yāṅā julo || lekhaka śrīviṣṇudevana coyā julo || ||
ādarśadoṣān mativibhramād vā
balād viśeṣāl likhinasya vegāt |
yadarthavṛttaṃ tadasu(!)ddhavarṇaṃ
kṣamantu santaḥ khalu lekhakasya || || || ||
udakānala … (fol. 285v7–10)
Microfilm Details
Reel No. B 205/2
Date of Filming none
Exposures 303
Used Copy Kathmandu
Type of Film positive
Remarks two exposures of fols. 84v–85r, 94v–95r, 127v–128r, 144v–145r, 183v–184r, 213v–214r and 284v–285r
Catalogued by BK/RK
Date 03-06-2008
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