A 1025-21 Mudrārākṣasa

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 1025/21
Title: Mudrārākṣasa
Dimensions: 26.9 x 12.5 cm x 30 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Nāṭaka and Nāṭyaśāstra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 6/1614
Remarks:

Reel No. A 1025-21 Inventory No. 44458

Title Mudrārākṣasa

Author Viśākha Datta

Subject Nāṭaka

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State Incomplete

Size 27.5 x 12.5 cm

Folios 30

Lines per Folio 10

Foliation figures in the both margin of the verso under the abbreviation mudrā.

Scribe Viśvānaṃda

Date of Copying ŚS 1727

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 6/1614

Manuscript Features

Available folios 45 of (tantra) and 51,52,55-66,74,76-88,91 of mudrā

Excerpts

. . . tuna vipreṇa vidheyaṃ || ||

tad uktaṃ yāmale ||

rājānarabaliṃ dadyān nānyopi na maheśvarī ||

anyatrāpi ||

siṃhavyāghragajān dattvā brāhmaṇo narakaṃ vrajet ||

tato devīṃ vakṣyamāṇa stavena stutvā pradakṣiṇātrayaṃ vidhāyāṣṭāṃgapraṇāṃaṃ kuryāt || tad uktaṃ kālītaṃtre || tato vai śirase puṣpaṃdattvāṣṭāṃgaṃ praṇamya veti || || atha pradakṣiṇā yathā || . . . [ (exp.1-2a tāntrika aṣṭāṃgapraṇāma, paṃcāṃgaprāṇāma kuṃḍalinī, pradakṣīṇāvidhi etc.)]

Beginning

bhir yathā na vayamamātya rākṣadvāreṇa kumāram āśrayaṇiyam āśrayāmahe kiṃtu kumārasya senāpani śikharasenam urīkṛtya duṣṭāmātyari (!) gṛhitā caṃdraguptādaya raktākumāramābhirāmika guṇayogādāśrayaṇīyeti śikharasenaṃ urīkṛtya duṣṭāmātyaparigṛhītāc caṃdraguptād aparaktāḥ; kumāram ābhirāmika guṇayogād āśrayaṇīyam āśrayāmahe iti || (fol. 51r1–4)

End

cāṇakyaḥ || amātyarākṣasa tad ucyatāṃ kiṃte bhūyaḥ priyam upakaromi ||

rākṣasaḥ || ataḥ param api priyam asti || yadyaparitoṣitas tasmād idaṃ bhavatu || vārāhī māmayānes tanumatanubalāmāṣṭitasyānurūpām

yasya pradiyothata (!) koṭiṃ pralayaparigatā śiśriṣe bhūtadhātrīṃ ||

mlechai tu dvejā mānābhujayugamadhunā saṃśritā rājamūrtteḥ

sa śrīmad baṃdhubhṛtyaś ciram avatu mahīṃ pārthivo dharmapatnīṃ (!) || || ||

(fol. 91r2–5)

Colophon

iti niṣkrāṃtāḥ sarve saptamoṃkaḥ samāptam idaṃ mudrārākṣasābhidhānaṃ nāmanāṭakaṃ || || śubham || || giridṛgghanage śāke māse śrāvaṇa saṃjñake || kāvyavāre alikhadviśvānaṃdaḥ sugata sevakaḥ || 1 || || (fol. 91r5–7)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 1025/21

Date of Filming 13-06-1985

Exposures 31

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by JU\MS

Date 4-03-2004

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