A 1115-17 Atharvaveda

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 1115/17
Title: Atharvaveda
Dimensions: 22.8 x 11.2 cm x 29 folios
Material: paper?
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Veda
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 6/2056
Remarks:

Reel No. A 1115-17 Inventory No. 90764

Title Atharvaveda

Subject Veda

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material Nepali paper

State incomplete

Size 22.8 x 11.2 cm

Folios 27

Lines per Folio 2–6

Foliation figures on the verso, in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation atharva. ho and in the lower right-hand margin under the word śrīguruḥ ; the exp. 3, which might be fol. 2v is not foliated, foliation runs upto 10 and again appear a folio numbered 10 written with diffrent hand, which is not double of the first one (fol. 10)

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 6/2056

Manuscript Features

The foliation of the text is not regular, so in the excerpt is cited exposure numbers.

Folio, numbered 14 which is blank (after the fol. 12) is wrongly numbered.

The verso side of fol. 28 is blank.

The bottom folio of exp. 28 might be misplaced. It is not in proper place.

Most of the lines of the verso part of the fol. 33 is deleted by scribe.

There are two exposures of fols. 4v–5r, 10v–11r, 30v–31r and exp. 28b.

Fols. 13, 14, and 25–33 are in reverse order.

Available folios 2–3, 4, 8–10, 10–14, 14–16, 22–26, 28, 30–36.

Excerpts

Beginning

devānāṃ bhūyāsam 2 viyā sahiṃ ○ | ○ | ○ | hva indraṃ priyaḥ prajānāṃ bhūyāsam 3 viyā sahiṃ ○ | ○ | ○ | hva indraṃ priyaḥ paśūnāṃ bhūyāsam 4 viyā sahiṃ ○ | ○ | ○ | hva indrapriyaḥ samānānāṃ bhūyāsam 5 udi hyudihi sūryavarcasā mābhyudihi (exp. 3t1–4)

End

sa hi divaḥ sa pṛthivyā ṛtasthā mahīkṣemaṃ rodasī(ndra) askabhāyat || mahān mahī askabhā yad vijāto dyāṃ sadma pārthivaṃ ca rajaḥ || 4 || sa budhnyā rāṣṭajanuṣo ʼbhyagraṃ bṛha(exp. 36 ll. 4–6)

Colophon

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 1115/17

Date of Filming 13-07-1986

Exposures 36

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by BK

Date 19-09-2008

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