B 14-8 Amarakoṣa
Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: B 14/8
Title: Amarakoṣa
Dimensions: 31.5 x 5 cm x 104 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Maithili
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Kośa
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/1633
Remarks:
Reel No. B 14/8
Inventory No. 2164
Title Amarakośa
Remarks also known as Nāmaliṅgānuśāsana
Author Amarasiṃha
Subject Kośa
Language Sanskrit
Manuscript Details
Script Maithili
Material palm-leaf
State slightly damaged
Size 31.5 x 5.0 cm
Binding Hole 1, rectangular, left of centre
Folios 104
Lines per Folio 4–6
Foliation figures in the middle of the left-hand margin of the verso
Scribe Lakṣmīdāsa
Place of Copying Śāmayanāṭārīgrāma
King Siṃhadeva (12th c.)
Donor Caturadāsa
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 1/1633
Manuscript Features
The writing on fol. 91r has been almost entirely rubbed off. There are occasional glosses in the margins by the same hand.
Fol. 104 is broken in two, the two parts have been wrongly put together for filming (showing part of the verso and the recto on exp. 108–109 respectively).
Excerpts
Beginning
❖ [[oṁ]] namaḥ śivāya ||
- yasya jñānadayāsindhor agādhasyānaghā guṇāḥ
- sevyatām akṣayo dhīrāḥ sa śriye cāmṛtāya ca ||
- samāhṛtyānyatantrāṇi saṃkṣiptaiḥ pratisaṃskṛtaiḥ |
- saṃpūrṇṇam ucyate varggair nnāmaliṅgānusāsanaṃ ||
- prāyaśo rūpa○bhedena sāhacaryyāc ca kutracit |
- strīpunnapuṃsakaṃ jñeyaṃ tadviśeṣavidheḥ kvacit ||
- bhedākhyānāya na dvandvo naikaśeṣo na śaṅkaraḥ | ○
- kṛto ʼtra bhinnaliṅgānām anuktānāṃ kramād ṛte ||
- triliṅgyā triṣv iti padaṃ mithune tu dvayor iti |
- niṣiddhaliṅgaṃ śeṣārthaṃ tvantāthādi na ○ pūrvabhāk ||
- svar avyayaṃ svargganākatridivatridaśālayāḥ |
- svaraloko dyodivau dve striyau (!) klībe tripiṣṭapaṃ ||
- amarā nirjjarā devās tridaśā vibu⁅dhāḥ surā⁆ḥ |
- suparvvāṇaḥ sumanasas tridiveśā divaukasaḥ ||
- āditeyā diviṣado lekhā aditina(fol. 2r1)ndanāḥ |
- ādityā ṛbhavo asvapnā amarttyā amṛtāndhasaḥ ||
- (fol. 1v1–2r1)
End
- triṣu pātrī puṭī vāṭī peṭī kuvaladāḍimau |
- paraṃ liṅgaṃ svapradhāne dva(fol. 104r1)ndve tatpuruṣe pi tat |
- arthāntāḥ prādyalaṃprādyalaṃ(!)prāptāpannapūrvvāpa⁅ro⁆pagāḥ |
- taddhitārthe dviguḥ saṃkhyāsarvvanāmatadantakāḥ ||
- bahuvrīhir adignāmnām unneyaṃ tadudāhṛtaṃ |
- guṇadravyakriyāyogopādhibhiḥ paragāminaḥ |
- kṛtaḥ ○ karttary asaṃjñāyāṃ kṛtyā (!) karttari karmmaṇi |
- aṇādyantās tena raktārthe (!) nānārthabhedakāḥ |
- ṣaṭsaṃjñakā⁅s triṣu⁆ samā yuṣmad asmat tiṅ avyayaṃ |
- param vi○rodhe śeṣan tu jñeya (!) śiṣṭaprayogataḥ ||
- (fol. 103v6–104r3)
Sub-colophons
ity amarasiṃhakṛtau liṅgādi(!)śāsane surādikāṇḍeḥ (!) prathamavarggaḥ || (fol. 18v5)
ity ama(!)siṃhakṛ○tau nāmaliṃgānuśāsane dvitīyo bhūmikāṇḍo yaṃ samāptaḥ || ❁ || (fol. 70r3)
Colophon
ity amarasiṃhakṛtau nāmaliṅgānuśāsane liṅgasaṃgrahavargge tṛtīyaḥ kā⁅ṇḍa⁆ḥ samāptaḥ || ❁ || ○ paramabhaṭṭārake tyādirājāvalīpūrvvakaśrīmadvara-siṃhadevasaṃ(pū)jyamānā gāṃbhīra(dṛktau) vāre pūradroṇī (svabhibaddhā)ku|| ❁ ||⁅lī⁆deśāntargataśāmayanāṭārīgrāmavābhiḥ (!) śrīlakṣmīdāsaiḥ pāṃśrīcaturadāsānāṃ pāṭhāya likhitaiṣā amarakoṣapustikā || yathādṛṣṭaṃ tathā li⁅khi⁆tam iti lekhakasya parīhāraḥ || śubham astu ||
- bhagnapṛṣṭhakaṭigrīvā tabdha(!)dṛṣṭir adhomukhaḥ |
- duḥkhena likhitā pustī putravat paripālayet ||
- pustī ca kulastrī ca rakṣitavye prayatnataḥ |
- parahastagatā caiṣā nasyaty (!) atra na saṃśayaḥ ||
- kiṃ jātair bbahubhiḥ putraiḥ śo○kasaṃtāpakārakaiḥ |
- varam ekaḥ kulālambī yatra visramate kulaṃ ||
- yena tena prakāreṇa vidyā jānaya (!) yatnataḥ |
- vidyāyāś ca ○ praśādena sarvvatra pūjyate naraḥ ||
- paṭhaputra(praya)tnena apaṭhaś cāvaśīdati |
- paṭhate pūjyate lokaiḥ paṭhaputra (!) dine dine |
- ko tibhāra (!) samarthānāṃ kiṃ dūraṃ vyavasārināṃ |
- ko videśaḥ savidyānāṃ kaḥ ⁅pu⁆raḥ priyavādināṃ ||
- (fol. 104r3–v5)
Microfilm Details
Reel No. B 14/8
Date of Filming 25-08-1970
Exposures 112
Used Copy Berlin
Type of Film negative
Remarks Fols. 9v–10r and 58v–59r have been microfilmed twice.
Catalogued by OH
Date 22-03-2007
