A 321-20 Amarakoṣa

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 321/20
Title: Amarakoṣa
Dimensions: 23.5 x 10.5 cm x 66 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Kośa
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 5/3261
Remarks:

Reel No. A 321-20 Inventory No. 2228

Reel No.: A 321/20

Title Amarakoṣa

Author Amarasiṃha

Subject Kośa

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State incomplete

Size 23.5 x 10.5 cm

Folios 66

Lines per Folio 6–8

Foliation figures in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation a. dvi. on the verso and in the lower right-hand margin under the word śivaḥ on the verso

Place of Copying SAM 1877

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 2/225

Manuscript Features

adhigaganam anekā (!) tārakā rājyam āpuḥ

pratigṛham api dīpāḥ prāpnuvanti prasutvaṃ (!) ||

diśi diśi vikasantaḥ sa(2)nti khadyotapotā[[ḥ]]

savitari paribhūte kin na (!) lokair aloki || 1 || etc.

There are many footnotes in the margins.

There are three kāṇḍas of this text, but the manuscript contains only first and second kāṇḍas.

Foliation starts newly in each chapter.

Excerpts

Beginning

śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ||  ||

yasya jñānadayāsiṃdhor agādhasyānaghā guṇāḥ ||

sevyatām akṣayo dhīrāḥ sa śriyai cāmṛtāya ca || 1 ||

samāhṛtyānyataṃtrāṇi (2) saṃkṣiptaiḥ pratisaṃskṛtaiḥ ||

saṃpūrṇam ucyate vargair nāmaliṃgānuśāsanaṃ || 2 ||

prāyaśo rūpabhedena sāhacaryyāc ca kutracit ||

strīpuṃnapuṃ(3)sakaṃ jñeyaṃ tadviśeṣavidheḥ kvacit ||

bhedākhyānāya na dvaṃdvo naikaśeṣo na saṃkaraḥ ||

kṛto [[ʼ]]tra bhinnaliṃgānām anuktānāṃ kramād ṛte || 4 || (fol. 1v1–3)

End

paṇo kṣeṣu glaho kṣās tu devanāḥ pāśakāś ca te

Pariṇāyas tu sārīṇaṃ (3) samaṃtān nayane striyām. 45

aṣṭāpadaṃ śāriphalaṃ prāṇidyūtaṃ samāhvayaḥ

(4) uktā bhūriprayogatvāt ekasmin yatra yaugikā.(!) 46

tāddharmyād anyato vṛ(5)ttāv ūhyā liṃgāṃtare pi te. 47 ||  ||

iti śūdravargāḥ (!) ||  ||

ity amara(6)siṃhakṛtau nāmaliṃgānuśāsane.

dvitīyo bhūmikāṃḍo (!) yaṃ sāṃga eva (7) samarthitaḥ 1  ||  || (fol. 52v2–7)

Colophon

śrī samvat 1877 kārttikakṛṣṇāṣṭamyāṃ li(53r1)khitaṃ kāśyāṃ mahādevena rudradevasya pāṭhārtham subham agamat ||  || (fol. 52v7–53r1)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 321/20

Date of Filming 18-04-1972

Exposures 71

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks two exposures of fols.1v–2r and 18v–19r, the second kāṇḍa has been microfilmed firstly and then the first kāṇḍa.

Catalogued by BK/JU

Date 23-09-2005

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