A 1350-15 Amarakośa

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 1350/15
Title: Amarakośa
Dimensions: 20.7 x 9.5 cm x 117 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit; Newari
Subjects: Kośa
Date: NS 779
Acc No.: NAK 1/1136
Remarks:

Reel No. A 1350-15 Inventory No. 90053

Title Amarakośa

Remarks An alternative title is Nāmaliṅgānuśāsana.

Author Amarasiṃha

Subject Kośa

Language Sanskrit, Newari

Text Features

Reference BSP 9, p. 15, no. 33 (1/1136)

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material paper

State incomplete, available folios: 3–*119

Size 20.7 x 9.5 cm

Folios 117

Lines per Folio 7

Foliation figures in the right margin of the verso; there are two or three different (or sometimes the same) folio numbers on most of the folios after fol. 61.

Date of Copying SAM (NS) 779

Donor Kaviratna

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 1/1136

Manuscript Features

The manuscript covers the text from the 21^st śloka of the Svargavarga of the first kāṇḍa to the end of the whole work.

There are short marginal notes in Sanskrit and Newari.

Generally, above the lines of the text there are Newari words heading a new entry in the main text. In the main text itself, a small vertical stroke is used to separate words from each other.

Excerpts

Beginning

-vikramaḥ ||

devakīnandanaḥ śauriḥ śrīpatiḥ puruṣottamaḥ |

vanamālī balidhvaṃsī kaṃsārātir adhokṣajaḥ | (fol. 3r1–2)

End

ṣaṭsaṃjñakās triṣu samā yusmadasmattiṅavyayaṃ |

paraṃ virodho śeṣan tu jñeyaṃ śiṣṭaprayogataḥ || ||

iti liṅgādisaṃgrahavargaḥ || ||<ref name="ftn1">^{. There are two ślokas after the sentence:}

^{padmāni bodhayaty arkaḥ kāvyāni kurute kaviḥ |}

^{tatsaurabhaṃ nabhasvantaḥ santas tanvanti tadguṇān ||}

^{ity arkkavyavahārāṅgaṃ nāmaliṅgaṃ samāhṛtaḥ |}

^{kṛtsnasya tu gatau nāntaṃ tāv apīndrābṛhaspatī || ||}

</ref>

ity amarasiṃhakṛtau nāmaliṅgānuśāsane

viśeṣyanighnādikāṇḍas tṛtīyo yaṃ samanvitaḥ || ○ || śubham astu || ○ || (fol. *119r7–v5, exp. 125)

Colophon

samvat 779 phālgunaśuklacaturddaśyāṃ tithau saṃpūrṇaṃ likhitaṃ śrīkaviratnasya pustakam idaṃ || ||<ref name="ftn2">^{. At the end of the manuscript there is a śloka:}

^{utthāya ṭiṭṭibhaḥ pādau śete bhaṅgabhayād divaḥ |}

^{svabhāvakalpitaṃ garvaṃ kasya nāvahate janaḥ ||} </ref> (fol. *119v5–6, exp. 125)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 1350/15

Date of Filming 14-11-1988

Exposures 126

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks two exposures of fols. 38v–39r, 61v–62r, 66v–67r, 70v–72r and 99v–100r.

Catalogued by RT

Date 23-01-2003

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