A 1056-9 Raghuvaṃśa

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Filmed in: A 1056/9
Title: Raghuvaṃśa
Dimensions: x cm x folios
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Reel No. A 1056/9

Inventory No. New

Title Raghuvaṃśa

Remarks

Author Kālidāsa

Subject Kāvya

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Newari, Devanagari

Material Nepali loose paper

State complete

Size 40.0 x 8.2 cm

Binding Hole 1, circular, in the middle, in first 30 folios

Folios 98

Lines per Folio 5–6

Foliation figures in the middle of the right-hand margin on the verso

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 1/389

Manuscript Features

First 30 folios are written in Newari script and the rest folios are in Devanagari script.
The text is continuous in 30v and 31r.
Marginal notes are written on fols. 1–29.

Excerpts

Beginning

❖ oṃ namaḥ sāradayai ||

vāgarthāv iva saṃpṛktau vāgarthapratipattaye |
jagataḥ pitarau vande pārvvatīparameśvarau ||

kva sūryaprabhavo vaṃśaḥ kva cālpaviṣayā matiḥ |
titīrṣur dustaraṃ mohād uḍūpenāsmi sāgaraṃ || (fol. 1v1–2)

End

tasyās tathāvidhanarendravipattiśokād
uṣṇair vilocanajalaiḥ prathamābhitaptaḥ |
nirvāpitaḥ kanakakumbhamukhojjhitena
vaṃśābhiṣekavidhinā śiśireṇa garbhaḥ ||

taṃ bhāvārthaṃ prasavasamayākāṅkṣiṇīnāṃ prajānām
antargūḍhaṃ kṣitir iva nabhobījamuṣṭiṃ dadhānā |
maulaiḥ sārdhaṃ sthavirasacivair hemasiṃhāsanasthā
rājñī rājyaṃ vidhivad aśiṣad bhartur avyāhatājñā || (fol. 97v4–6)

Colophon

iti śrīkālidāsakṛtau raghuvaṃśe mahākāvye unaviṃśatiḥ sargaḥ samāptaḥ ||    || śubham ||    || ❁ || ❖ || ❖ || ❖ || (fol. 97v6–98r1)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 1056/9

Date of Filming 05-01-1986

Exposures 105

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks = A 396-14

Catalogued by RT

Date 05-07-2011