B 318-4 Prasannasāhityaratnākara
Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: B 318/4
Title: Prasannasāhityaratnākara
Dimensions: 24.7 x 9.4 cm x 204 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Sāhitya
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/1574
Remarks: I
Reel No. B 318/4
Title Prasannasāhityaratnākara
Author Nandana
Subject Kāvya
Language Sanskrit
Reference Śāstri 1905: xxxix, 211.
Manuscript Details
Script Newari
Material paper
State incomplete
Size 24.7 x 9.4 cm
Folios 204
Lines per Folio 7
Foliation figures in the left margin of the verso
Illustrations one on the wooden cover
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 1-1574
Manuscript Features
Excerpts
Beginning
oṃ namo vāgīśvayyai (!) ||
viśveṣāṃ hṛdaye yo sau yatra viśvaṃ carācaraṃ |
ekānekasvarūpāya tasmai jñānātmane namaḥ ||
sāretarapravicayaṃ prati saprayatnā
dhīrāḥ kṣaṇaṃ bhavata sūktiṣu sāvadhānāḥ |
yete (!) vayaṃ khalu parasya kṛtāni lakṣāṇy
udbhāvya kāvyam ucite pathi varttayāmaḥ ||
sāmrājyaṃ yadi satsabhāsv abhimataṃ syād vā kalasu spṛhā
vāk hṛdyaṃ yadi cepsitaṃ mṛgadṛśāṃ rājñāṃ manaḥprīṇanaṃ |
tad vaikyākaraṇasya pāṇinimateḥ sāhityāvidyāvidaḥ
śrīnandasya samuccayaḥ sumatayaḥ sānandam ālokyatāṃ ||
sadarthālaṃkāraṃ śravaṇapuṭapeyaṃ sphuṭarasaṃ
sudhādhārāsārapratimagurusārasvatamayaṃ
kavīnāṃ kīrttyarthaṃ śravaṇapaṭhārthañ ca viduṣāṃ
sahasraṃ ślokānāṃ vyaracayad idaṃ nandanakaviḥ || (fols. 1v1–2r1)
End
āsannam eva nṛpatir bhajate manuṣyaṃ
vidyāvihīnam akulīnam asaṃgataṃ vā |
prāyena bhūmipatayaḥ pramadā latāś ca
yaḥ pārśvato viśati tat pariveṣṭayanti ||
khyātiṃ yatra guṇā na yānti guṇinas tatra śramaḥ kevalaṃ
kiṃ kuryyā (!) bahuśikṣito pi puruṣaḥ pāṣāṇakalpe jale (!) |
premāśaktavilāśinī madakalavyālupyamānākṣaraḥ
śītkāraḥ sumanoharāṇi badhire kiṃ nāma kuryyā (!) mukhaṃ ||
kiṃ kurvanti guṇāḥ svabhāvamahatā stoketere śobhanā
loke durjjanamūkamūrkhasadṛśe prakhyāpyamānā api |
aakarṇṇasthitalolalocanacaladbhrūbhaṃgabhaṃgocitaṃ
jātāṃdhe vada (fol. 204v2–6)
Microfilm Details
Reel No. B 318/4
Date of Filming 10-07-1972
Used Copy Berlin
Type of Film negative
Catalogued by DA
Date 12-07-2004
Bibliography A Catalogue of Palm-leaf & Selected Paper MSS. Belonging to the Durbar Library, Nepal. By Hara Prasād Śāstri. To which has been added A Historical Introduction by Cecil Bendall. Calcutta 1905.
