A 25-6 Kāvyaṭīkā

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 25/6
Title: Kāvyaṭīkā
Dimensions: 34 x 4 cm x 10 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition:
Scripts: Maithili
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Kāvya
Date: ŚS 1755
Acc No.: NAK 5/865
Remarks: Hārāvalī ṭīkā, b Bhaṭṭa Makaranda?; A 1076/6

Reel No. A 25-6 MTM Inventory No.: 24102

Title Vṛndāvanakāvyaṭīkā

Remarks a short commentary on Mānāṅka’s poem Vṛndāvana (known as Vṛndāvanakāvya and Vṛndāvanayamaka); the first digitilised index card notes: “Hārāvalī ṭīkā, b Bhaṭṭa Makaranda?; A 1076/6”.

Subject Kāvya

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Maithili

Material palm-leaf

State complete; partly rubbed off; fols. 1–4 are torn at the right, and fols. 3–4 are torn at the left as well, with loss of text.

Size 34.0 x 4.0 cm

Binding Hole 1, rectangular, in the middle

Folios 10

Lines per Folio 6

Foliation figures in the right-hand margin on the verso

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 5/865

Used for Edition no

Manuscript Features

This multiple text MS contains an anonymous commentary on Mānāṅka’s poem Vṛndāvana<ref name="ftn1">^{On theVṛndāvana as an example of a yamakakāvya, see Raghavan 1963, pp. 808–809.}</ref> in full. The commentary is different from those by Rāmarṣi<ref name="ftn2">^{Cf. IO 3911.}</ref>, Kāśinātha and Śāntisūri.<ref name="ftn3">^{Cf. BORI D, Vol. XIII, Nos. 720, 722}</ref> Immediately after this text begins a commentary on the Kīcakavadha of which only the very beginning is preserved, on fol. 10v5–6 (cf. A 25/6b).

Excerpts

Beginning

oṃ namo nārāyaṇāya ||

varadāyeti || haraye nama iti sambandhaḥ atra ca kriyāntarābhāvād asti kriyāʼdhyāharttavyā tathā coktaṃ | yatrānyat kriyāpadaṃ na kr⁅i⁆yate tatrāsti bhavantī paraḥ prayoktavya iti | prathamapuruṣe prayujyamāne p. .(ā)///4 (2) eva | yadyapi hariśabdo yaṃ ⁅s⁆iṃhādau varttamānas tathāpi prakaraṇ⟪ā⟫avaśād viṣṇāv eva varttate | varam ī〇psitam arthaṃ dadātīti varadaḥ āto ʼnupasargge kaḥ<ref name="ftn4">^{Pāṇ. 3.2.3.}</ref> kiṃbhūtāyety āha patatītyādi | (fol. 1v1–2)

End

|| ity āhetyādi || so yaṃ ta(m) āheti pūrvva(3)treva yojitaṃ kutra ity āha paśumatāṃ gopānāṃ (!) āyatane gehe kiṃbhūtaḥ sa halī (!) āyatane taḥ 〇 ⁅ā⁆.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. (adantaṃ) tyakta(dantaṃ) kiṃbhūtaḥ sa halī hala⁅ṃ⁆ lāṅgalam asyāstīti haniḥ (?) | kiṃ kurvvan .. (lājānaḥ) ⁅cchāyāṃ⁆ (4) ⁅śo⁆bhāṃ ⁅daśan⁆air dantaiḥ saha prakiran udgiran kayā hetubhūtayā ..(sitānaḥ) vimalatayā nirmmalatayā 〇 ki(m viśiṣṭ). .. .. (pṛ.itānā) līlājānaḥ krīḍājānaḥ || śrīḥ || (fol. 10v2–4)

Colophon

⁅iti vṛndā⁆vanakāvyaṭīkā samāptā ⁅||⁆ śrīḥ || (fol. 10v4)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 25/6a

Date of Filming 06-09-1970

Exposures 12

Used Copy Berlin

Type of Film negative

Remarks Fol. 1r was not microfilmed.

Catalogued by DD

Date 21-09-2003

Bibliography

Eggeling, Julius

1896Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office. Part V. Saṃskṛit Literature: A. Scientific and Technical Literature. IX. Medicine, X. Astronomy and Mathematics, XI. Architecture and Technical Science. Edited by Julius Eggeling. London 1896.

Gode, Parashuram Krishna

1942Descriptive Catalogue of the Government Collections of Manuscripts deposited at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute. Compiled by Parashuram Krishna Gode. Volume XIII: Part II Kāvya. Poona 1942.

Pāṇini

1887Pâṇini’s Grammatik. Herausgegeben, übersetzt, erläutert und mit verschiedenen Indices versehen von Otto Böhtlingk. Leipzig 1887.

Raghavan, Veṅkatarāma

1963Bhojaʼs Śṛṅgāra Prakāśa. By V. Raghavan. Madras 1963.

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