A 46-9 Kāśyapasaṃhitā

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 46/9
Title: Kāśyapasaṃhitā
Dimensions: 50 x 5.5 cm x 135 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Āyurveda
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 5/455
Remarks:

Reel No. A 46-9

Inventory No. 30825

Title Kāśyapasaṃhitā

Remarks also known as Vṛddhajīvakīyatantra or Bṛhajjīvakīyatantra. The note affixed to the wooden cover further notes that the manuscript contains the Cikitsitakalpakhila (cikitsitakalpakhilasahitā).

Author Vṛddhajīvaka

Subject Āyurveda

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material palm-leaf

State incomplete, damaged

Size 50.0 x 5.5 cm

Binding Hole 2

Folios 135

Lines per Folio 6

Foliation letters and figures in the middle of the left-hand margin of the verso

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 5/554

Edited MS yes

Manuscript Features

This MS alone was used for the edition of the Kāśyapasaṃhitā by Ācharya and Śarmā in 1938 (cf. bibliography). The following folios are extant: 22 (this folio has not yet been edited); 29; 33-34; 37-39; 41-46; 49; 75-76; 79; 81; 84-85; 92; 94; 101; 104-105; 114; 117-118; 120; 125-126; 128; 132-133; 136-141; 143-154; 167-191; 193-234; 236-246; 250; 253; 259; 261-264. The actual order of folios is as follows: 29; 22; 33; 37-39; 41-46; 49; 34; 75-76 etc. Fol. 178 comes between fols. 179 and 180. Some folios are damaged in the margin. The foliation of these damaged folios has been indicated in the space of the left binding hole, probably by the editor of the text. Fols. 141-164 seem to have been written by another hand than the previous folios. Almost every folio is damaged, if only slightly so.

Excerpts

Beginning

yāni dravyāni puṇyāni maṅgalyāni śucīni ca
na cānyabhagnakhaṇḍāni puṃnāmāni priyāni ca
garbhiṇy evāny (!) upaharet ..māsyā bharaṇāni ca
na strī na puṃsakākhyāni …… ⁅galate⁆ tathā
dhūpitārcitasaṃmṛ⁅ṣṭaṃ saṃkāśa⁆hṛdyavarjita (!) ||
brahmaghoṣaiḥ savādittaiḥ (!) vāditaveśmaśa(myu)⁅taiḥ⁆
+++++śau..nte gurudevārcane ratāḥ
arccac cādityam udyante (!) ganda(!)dhūpārghyadājapaiḥ
kṣī○yamānañ ca śaśinaṃm (!) astaṃ yānta (!) ca bhāskaraṃ
na paśyed garbhiṇī nityaṃ nā(my) ubhau rāhuvar(sa)ga (!)
śomārko (!) śagraho (!) sru○tvā garbhiṇī garbhaveśmani
śāntihomaparāsītam uktayo ṃganta (!) yācaye⁅t⁆
++++d atithibhikṣāṃ dadyāt na prativārayet
svayaṃ prajvalite cā⁅gnau⁆ +.tyarthaṃ juhuyād ghṛ○taṃ
pūrṇṇakumbhaṃ ghṛtaṃ mālyaṃ pūrṇṇapātraṃ ghṛtan dadhiḥ
(fol. 22r1-1-3)

End

eṣa (!) plīhadino (!) martyā ○ galagaṇḍikam eva ca |
guḍaśālyodanaṃ (!) prāyā (!) matsyabhojina (!) sevina (!) |
⁅prāya⁆śo madhurāhārā vātaśleṣmātmakā narāḥ
teṣāṃ kaṭukatiktañ ca rū○kṣmam uṣṇañ ca bhojanaṃ |
yac cānyad api śleṣmaghnaṃ teṣān tat ta(t) prayojayet |
kañcīpadā nava(dhvā)nā kāvīrās tulyayor api |
vānasī kumudārājyaṃ ciripālis tathaiva ca
cīrarājyañ ca corāṇāṃ pulindadra(v)iḍeṣu ca |
karapāṭhaśanāñ (!) ca vivehā (!) maṇḍapeṣu ca |
kāntārañ ca varāhañ ca paṭhā(!)⁅svābhī⁆ram eva ca |
dakṣiṇān diśim āśṛtya deśā vi
(fol. 164v4-6)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 46/9

Date of Filming 18-10-1970

Exposures 140

Used Copy Berlin

Type of Film negative

Catalogued by OH

Date 21-09-2007

Bibliography

• Kaśyapasamhitā (or Vṛiddhajīvakīya Tantra) by Vṛiddhajīvaka and rev. by Vātsya: with an introduction by Nepāl Rājguru Paṇḍit Hemrāj Śarmā. Ed. V. J. Trikamjī Āchārya and Somanātha Śarmā of Nepāl. 1938.