B 15-43 Aṅgatakumārakīyakuśopadeśanītisāraślokāṣṭakavyākhyā NS 644

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 15/43
Title: Kuśopadeśanītisāra
Dimensions: 23.5 x 4.5 cm x 15 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Nīti
Date: NS 644
Acc No.: NAK 1/1647
Remarks:

Reel No. B 15/43

Inventory No. 37267

Title #Aṅgatakumārakīyakuśopadeśanītisāraślokāṣṭakavyākhyā

Remarks a commentary on the Aṅgatakumārakīyakuśopadeśanītisāraślokāṣṭaka

Author

Subject Nīti

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material Palm-leaf

State complete

Size 23.5 x 4.5 cm

Binding Hole(s) 1, circular, in the middle

Folios 15

Lines per folio 5

Foliation figures in the right-hand margin of the verso

Scribe Bandhavasena Vajrācārya

Date of Copying NS 644

Place of Copying Tarumūlamahāvihāra, located in the eastern direction of Kathmandu (see the colophon)

King

Donor

Owner/Deliverer

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 1/1647

Manuscript Features

• The lower right-hand par of fols. 1–10 is damaged with a considerable loss of the text.

• The physical state of the MS is not very good. Letters are rubbed off in some folios.

Excerpts

Beginning

❖ oṁ namo mañjuśriye ||

mañjuśriyaṃ jagannāthaṃ khaḍgapuṣṭāṅgadhāriṇaṃ |

namaskṛtvā hi lekhe(!) haṃ tataḥ saṃbandhaśā(!)dhanaṃ || ||

nāgo bhāti madenetyādi || bhāti śobhate | ko ʼsau | nāgā(!) hastī | kena | madena | harṣāhaṃkāreṇa mattasvabhāvena | tathā bhāti śobhate | ko ʼsau | kaṃ | jalaṃ | kaiḥ | jalaruhaiḥ | padmotpā(!)lādibhiḥ | tathā bhāti śobhate | (fol. 1v1–3)

End

tatas tadananantaraṃ | avaśī(!)dati | avasānaṃ prāpnoti | kiṃ tat | jagal lokaḥ | kathaṃbhūtaṃ | jagatsakalaṃ nila(!)vaśeṣaṃ | kasyāṃ nītau | satyāṃ | kathaṃbhūtāyāṃ | vipannāyāṃ | vināśam āpannāyāṃ || satyām iti || | | (fol. 15v1–2)

Colophon

iti kuśopadeśenītisāre aṃgatakumārakṛto ʼyaṃ aṣṭamaḥ ślokaḥ sambandhaḥ paricchedaḥ samāptaḥ paripūri(!)saṃpūrṇṇam || ❁ || samvat 644 phālguṇapratipadadine bhṛguvāsare || || śubha(!) || ❁ ||

śrīkāṣṭhamaṇḍapurīpūrvadigsthitamahāvīhāraratumūlanāmavāsita(!)vajrācāryaśrībandhavasenena rakhītaṃ (!) || ||

‥ loka(māduṣṭa cetttaṃ dhuśanāya hraṣamanavarttanāthanimitaṃ rekhitaṃ) || śubha(!) || ❁ || (fol. 15v2–5)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 15/43

Date of Filming not indicated

Exposures 18

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks

Catalogued by MS/RK

Date 26-04-2012

Bibliography NEPALA LIPI-PRAKAŚA of Hemarāja Śākya, Kathmandu: Nepala Rājakīya Prajñā-pratiṣṭhāna, 1973 (VS 2030).