A 365-15 Alaṅkāraśekhara

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 365/15
Title: Alaṅkāraśekhara
Dimensions: 24.8 x 10.5 cm x 63 folios
Material: paper?
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Alaṅkāra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 4/705
Remarks:

Reel No. A 365-15 Inventory No. 2119

Title Alaṇkāraśekhara

Author Keśava Miśra

Subject Alaṃkāra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material Indian Paper

State incomplete, damaged left and right-hand margin

Size 24.8 x 10.5 cm

Folios 63

Lines per Folio 7–8

Foliation figures on the verso; in the upper left-hand margin under the marginal title alam. śe. ra. and in the lower right-hand margin under the word rāma

King Māṇikyacandra

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 4/705/3

Manuscript Features

On the exposure 2 is written ten stanzas describing the war of the Indian independence.

phiraṃgisainyam udvīkṣya gorakṣeśo vibheti na |

iyam vārttā na cet satyā mṛgāt siṃgaḥ palāyate | 1

vṛddhatā balayā puṃso gṛhīte kṣaṇate jarāḥ (!) |

upanetran ghṛtavataś śailīyati piīlikā | 2

...

Excerpts

Beginning

śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ||

gurucaraṇān naumi ||

prāṇān kṛśodarīṇāṃ

rādhānayanāṃtasarvasvaṃ ||

tejas tamālanīlaṃ

(2) śaraṇāgatavajrapaṃjaraṃ vaṃde || 1 ||

svaprakāśacidānaṃdamayāya paramātmane ||

avidyāniviḍadhvāṃttabhāska(3)rāya namāmy ahaṃ || 2 ||

graṃthāḥ kāvyakṛtāṃ hitāya vihitā ye saptapūrvaṃ mayā

te tarkkārṇa[[va]]saṃplavavyasanibhiś śa(4)kyāḥ paraṃ veditum ||

ity ālocyā hṛdā mayā lasabadhūpādāraviṃda (!) kva[[ṇa]]n

maṃjīradhvanikomaloyam adhunā pra(5)stūyate prakramaḥ || 3 || (fol. 1v1–5)

End

āste yadyapi (63r1)/// -kha maṃḍitakṛtā vyākhyaiva vyākhyāvatām

ānaṃdāya tathāpi keśavakarver (!) vācām iyaṃ guṃphanā ||

vyākhyāsauṣṭavaśa(2)bdalāghavamithaḥ (!) saṃbaṃdhapūrvāpara-

pratyarthapratibaṃdhanirmalaguṇaḥ kutrānyato labhyatām |

tarkkaprauḍhamatiḥ praśa(3)stakavitāvallī vasaṃtotsavaḥ

koṣavyākaraṇaprapaṃca[ca]turo laṃkārapāraṃgamaḥ |

śrīmat keśavamiśram adbhuta(4)guṇāvāsaṃ niyujya svayaṃ

cakre śakrasamaḥ prapaṃcacaturo māṇikya caṃdro nṛpaḥ ||     || (fol. 62v9–63r4)

Colophon

ity alaṃkāraśekhare vi(5)śrāmaratnaṃ ||     ||

samāptitvam ayaṃ grahaṃtha (!) śyāyaśucike (!) pare ||

ṣaṣṭyartenvate (!) lokagrahamunibrahmatahāya(6)ne (!) || 

januṣṭāstād gurau sevyam eti pāpīyaso yataḥ |

sutuṣṭutāṃ jadgatā kaṃpye pūjyamāne paribṛḍhaiḥ ||śubham astu |⟪...⟫

(7) || 1 || śubham astu śarvadā (!) || 2 || (fol. 63r4–7)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 365/15

Date of Filming 12-06-1972

Exposures 67

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks Two exposure of exp. 2. Text begins from the exp. 4.

Catalogued by JU/MS

Date 18-05-2006

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