B 274-25 Abhijñānaśākuntala

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 274/25
Title: Abhijñānaśākuntala
Dimensions: 21.2 x 9 cm x 28 folios
Material: paper?
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Nāṭaka and Nāṭyaśāstra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/325
Remarks:

Reel No. B 274-25 Inventory No. 4907

Title Abhijñānaśākuntala

Remarks assigned to ādiparva of mahābhārata

Author Kālidāsa

Subject Nāṭaka

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State incomplete

Size 21.5 x 9.5 cm

Folios 29

Lines per Folio 10–12

Foliation figures in the upper left-hand margin of verso under the abbreviation śa.lā and lower right-hand margin of verso under the word rāmaḥ.

Scribe Śukadeva Upādhyāya

Date of Copying ŚS 1787

Place of Copying Kāśī

Owner / Deliverer NAK

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 1/326/1

Manuscript Features

Available foll. are 18-46.

Excerpts

Beginning

-krāṃtā śakuṃtalā sahetarabhiḥ |

rājā pūrvaschānam upetya saniśvāsaṃ aho vignavatyaḥ prārthitārthasiddhayaḥ | mayā hi

muhur (2) aṇgulisaṃvṛtādharoṣṭhaṃ pratiṣedhākṣraviklavābhirāmaṃ |

mukhamaṃsavivartti pakṣmalākṣyā (!) katham apy unnamitaṃ na cuṃbitaṃ (3) tat || 33 || (fol. 19r1–3)

End

rājā, bhagavān (!) ya(6)thāśakti śreyase prayatiṣye |

mārīcaḥ | vatsa kiṃ te bhūyaḥ priyam upaharāmi |

rājā saharṣaṃ praṇaman | ataḥ param api (7) bhagavān me prasādaṃ karttum arhati | yataḥ |

pravarttatāṃ prakṛtihitāya pāthiviḥ sarasvatī śrutimahatī mahīyatāṃ |

mamāpi ca kṣa(8)payatu nīlalohitaḥ punarbhavaṃ parigatabhaktir ātmabhūḥ || 2 || iti niṣkrāṃtāḥ sarve saptamoṃkaḥ || || (fol. 46r5–8)

Colophon

samāptaṃ cedaṃ mahā(9)kaviviracitam abhijñānaśākuṃtalaṃ nāma nāṭakaṃ || || likhitam idaṃ kāśyāṃ śukadevābhidhenopādhyāyopanā(10)mnā || || saṃbat 1787 || || śrī bhavānīviśveśvarābhyāṃ namaḥ || || śrīrāmacaṃdro vijayate || || śubhaṃ bhūyāt || || (fol. 46r8–10)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 274/25

Date of Filming 09-05-1972

Exposures 29

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by BK/JU

Date 31-12-2003

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