A 23-5 Māghakāvya
Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: A 23/5
Title: Māghakāvya
Dimensions: 30.5 x 5 cm x 47 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Kāvya
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/1473
Remarks:
Reel No. A 23/5
Inventory No. 28683
Title Śiśupālavadha
Remarks also widely known under the title Māghakāvya
Author Māgha
Subject Kāvya
Language Sanskrit
Manuscript Details
Script Devanagari
Material palm-leaf
State incomplete; only fols. 10–56 are available.
Size 30.5 x 5.0 cm
Binding Hole 1, rectangular, in the middle slightly to the left, from the upper margin to the lower margin
Folios 47
Lines per Folio 5
Foliation figures in the left-hand margin on the verso
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 1/1473
Manuscript Features
The MS is incomplete. Only fols. 10–56, containing the text of Śiśupālavadha 2.14 (partly), 2.15–7.69 and 7.70 (partly), are preserved. There are occasional marginal notes. As for the state of the MS, the original index card notes: “writing partly rubbed off, partly darkened”.
Excerpts
Beginning
¬ tnāpanayasmaraṇānusayasphurā |
oṣṭhena rāmo rāmo〇ṣṭhabimbacuṃbanacuṃcunā ||
vivakṣitām arthavidas tatkṣaṇapratisaṃhṛtāṃ |
prāpayan pava(2)navyādher giram uttarapakṣatāṃ ||
ghūrṇṇayan madirāsvāda〇madapāṭalitadyutī |
revatīdaśanocchiṣṭaparipūtapuṭe dṛśau ||
āśleṣalolu(3)pavadhūstanakārkasyasākṣiṇīṃ |
mlāpayann abhimā〇noṣṇair vanamālāṃ mukhānilaiḥ || (fol. 10r1–3)
End
muhur iti vanavibhramābhiṣaṅgād atami tadā nitarāṃ nitaṃbinībhiḥ |
(4) .. .. .. .. tanavo lasā (!) prakṛtyā ciram api tāḥ ki〇m uta prayāsabhājaḥ || kulakaṃ ||
prathamam alaghumauktikābham āsīc chramajalam ujjva(5)laga⁅ṇ⁆ḍama⁅ṇ⁆ḍaleṣu ||
kaṭhinakucataṭāgrapāti paścā〇d atha satasarkkaratāṃ jagāma tāsām ||
vipulakam api yauvanoddhatā⁅nāṃ⁆ .. .. .. (fol. 56v3–5)
Sub-colophons
iti śiśupālavadhe 〇 mahākāvye maṃtrasarggo dvitīyaḥ || ❁ || (fol. 17v4)
prasthāno nāma tṛtīyaḥ sargaḥ || (fol. 26r1)
iti śiśupālavadhe mahākāvye raivatakavarṇṇano nāma caturthaḥ sarggaḥ || ❁ || (fol. 33r6)
sainyavāso nāma paṃcamaḥ sarggaḥ || 〇 | ❁ || (fol. 41r3)
ṛtuvarṇṇanā ṣaṣṭhaḥ sarggaḥ || ❁ || (fol. 49r1)
Microfilm Details
Reel No. A 23/5
Date of Filming 03-09-1970
Exposures 51
Used Copy Berlin
Type of Film negative
Remarks Fols. 34v–35r have been microfilmed twice on exps. 27–28.
Catalogued by DD
Date 18-10-2003
