B 283-5 Hitopadeśa

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 283/5
Title: Hitopadeśa
Dimensions: 16.5 x 6 cm x 127 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Nīti
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/1597
Remarks:

Reel No. B 283-5 Inventory No. 23846

Title Hitopadeśa

Author Viṣṇu Śarmā

Subject Nītiśāstra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material Paper

State Incomplete, fol. 43, 44, 82 and 92 are missing.

Size 16.5 x 6.0 cm

Folios 123

Lines per Folio 5

Foliation numbes in left middle margin of verso.

Date of Copying NS 839

Owner / Deliverer NAK

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 1/1597

Manuscript Features

The first and last exposure bears one stamp of Candrasamśera.

Excerpts

Beginning

❖ oṃ namaḥ sarvvajñāyaḥ(!) ||

punar api kathāraṃbhakāle rājarutrair(!) uktaṃ āryarājaputrā vayaṃ tadvigrahaṃ śrotuṃ naḥ kūtuhalam astiḥ(!) || viṣṇuśarmmaṇoktaṃ,, || yadeva bhadbhayo(!) rocate tad eva kathayāmi,, || vigrahaḥ śrūyatāṃ,, || yasyāyam ādhyaślokaḥ ||

haṃsaiḥ saha mayūrāṇāṃ, vigrahe tulyavikrame, ||

viśvāsya vaṃcitā haṃsā(!),, kākaiḥ sthitvārimandire,, ||

(fol. 1v1–2r2 )

End

prāleyādraḥ(!) sutāyāḥ praṇayanivasatiś candramauliḥ sa yāvad,,

yāvarl lakṣmīr murārer jalada iva taḍin mānase visphurantī,, ||

yāvat svarṇācaloyaṃ davadahanasamā(!) yasya sūryaḥ sphūliṃgas(!),,

tāvat nārāyaṇena pracaratu racitaḥ samgrahoyaṃ kathānāṃ,, ||

paraṃ ca,, ||

śrīḥmān(!) dhavalacandro ʼsau jīyāt māṇḍaliko ripūn

yenāyaṃ samgraho yatnāl lekhayitvā pracāritaḥ || ||

(fol. 126v1–127r2 )

Colophon

iti hitopadeśe nītisāre saṃdhir nnāma caturthaḥ kathāsaṃgrahaḥ samāptaḥ || || || śubham astu savvadākāraṃ śubhaḥ || || savat 839                                                           (fol. 127r2–5 )

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 283/5

Date of Filming 25-05-072

Exposures 125

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by BK/JU

Date 22-03-2004

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