B 14-19 Amarakoṣa
Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: B 14/19
Title: Amarakoṣa
Dimensions: 36.5 x 5 cm x 76 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Maithili
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Kośa
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 5/885
Remarks:
Reel No. B 14/19
Inventory No. 2178
Title Amarakośa
Remarks also known as Nāmaliṅgānuśāsana
Author Amarasiṃha
Subject Kośa
Language Sanskrit
Manuscript Details
Script Maithili
Material palm-leaf
State incomplete, damaged
Size 36.5 x 5.0 cm
Binding Hole 1, rectangular, left of centre
Folios 80
Lines per Folio 5
Foliation figures in the middle of the left-hand margin of the verso
Scribe Dāmodara
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 5/885
Manuscript Features
The following folios are extant: 1–17; 19–20; 21–23 only as fragments; 24; 26–54; 56–75; 78–84. Slightly damaged are fols. 1; 14–15; 19; 24–37; 74–76; 83. The writing on a few folios has been rubbed off to varying degrees. There are corrections carried out by the scribe himself and glosses by another hand.
A short description of this MS is to be found in BSP vol. IX p. 29 no. 102.
Excerpts
Beginning
⁅oṁ namo nārāya⁆ṇāya ||
- yasya jñānadayāsindhor agādhasyānaghā guṇāḥ |
- sevyatām akṣayo dhīrāḥ sa śriye cāmṛtāya ca ||
- samāhṛtyānyatantrāṇi saṃkṣiptaiḥ pratisaṃskṛtaiḥ |
- saṃpūrṇṇam ucyate varggair nnāma⁅liṅgānusāsanam ||
- prāyaśo rūpabhedena sāh⁆acaryāc ca kutracit |
- strīpunnapuṅsakaṃ jñeyaṃ tadvi○śeṣavidheḥ kvacit ||
- bhedākhyānāya na dvandvo naikaśeṣo na saṅkaraḥ |
- kṛto tra bhinnaliṅgānām anuktānāṃ kramād ṛte ||
- triliṅgyā triṣv iti padaṃ mithune ca dvayor iti |
- niṣiddha○liṅgaṃ śeṣārthaṃ tvantāthādi na pūrvvabhāk ||
- svar avyayaṃ svargganākatridivatridaśālayāḥ |
- suraloko dyodivau dve striyau (!) klībe tripiṣṭapam (!) ||
- amarā nirjjarā devās tridaśā vibudhā○ḥ surāḥ |
- suparvvāṇaḥ sumanasas tridiveśā divaukasaḥ ||
- āditeyā diviṣado ⁅le⁆khā aditinandanāḥ |
- ādityā ṛbhavo ʼsvapnā amarttyā amṛtāndhasaḥ ||
- (fol. 1v1–5)
End
- triṣu pātrī puṭī vāṭī peṭī kuvaladāḍimau |
- paraṃ liṅgaṃ svapradhāne dvandve tatpuruṣe pi tat |
- arthantāḥ (!) prādyalaṃprāptāpannapūrvvāḥ paropagāḥ || ||
- taddhitārthe dvi[[gu]]ḥ saṃkhyā○ḥ sarvvanāmatadantakāḥ |
- bahuvrīhir adiṅnāmnām unneyaṃ tadudāhṛtam |
- guṇadravyakriyāyogopādhibhiḥ paragāminaḥ |
- kṛtaḥ karttary asaṃjñāyāṃ kṛtyāḥ karttari karmmaṇi |
- a○ṇādyantās tena raktādyarthe nānārthabhedaka[[ā]]ḥ |
- ṣaṭsaṃjñakās triṣu samā yuṣmad asmat tiṅ avyayam |
- paraṃ virodhe śeṣan tu jñeyaṃ śiṣṭaprayogataḥ || ||
liṃgādi○saṅgrahavarggaḥ || 19 ||
(fol. 84r1–4)
Sub-colophons
ity amarasiṃhakṛtau nāmaliṅgānuśāsane svarādikāṇḍaḥ pra+(fol. 17r1)maḥ || ❁ || (fol. 16v5–17r1)
ity amarasiṃhakṛtau nāmaliṅgānuśāsane bhūkāṇḍo nāma dvitīyaḥ kāṇḍaḥ || ❖ || (fol. 57v1–2)
ity amarasiṃhakṛtau nāmaliṅgānuśāsane sāmānyakāṇḍo nāma tṛtīyaḥ kāṇḍaḥ samāptaḥ || (fol. 84r4–5)
Colophon
ity amarakoṣapustakaṃ samāptaṃ śrīdāmodareṇa || śubham astu sarvvajagatāṃ parahitaniratā bhavantu bhūtagaṇāḥ | doṣāḥ prayāntu śantiṃ (!) sarvvatra sukhībhavatu lokaḥ || (fol. 84r5)
Microfilm Details
Reel No. B 14/19
Date of Filming 27-08-1970
Exposures 86
Used Copy Berlin
Type of Film negative
Remarks Fols. 47v and 63v–64r have been microfilmed twice, fols. 57v–58r thrice.
Catalogued by OH
Date 28-03-2007
