A 25-8 Raghuvaṃśa

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 25/8
Title: Raghuvaṃśa
Dimensions: 31 x 5.5 cm x 10 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Kāvya
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 4/1638
Remarks:

Reel No. A 25-8

Inventory No.: 43774

Title Raghuvaṃśa

Author Kālidāsa

Subject Kāvya

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material palm-leaf

State incomplete; only ten folios have been preserved; some of them are partially damaged; the leaves are torn off at the right, with loss of text.

Size 31.0 x 5.5 cm

Binding Hole 1, rectangular, in the middle

Folios 10

Lines per Folio 6

Foliation figures in the right-hand margin on the verso (possibly by a second hand)

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 4/1638

Manuscript Features

Only ten folios of this MS are available. The preserved part of the MS contains the following portions of the Raghuvaṃśa.

Raghuvaṃśa 1.54 – 1.66(exp. 7b)

Raghuvaṃśa 1.66 – 1.78(exp. 8a)

Raghuvaṃśa 4.22 – 4.32(exp. 7a)

Raghuvaṃśa 4.33 – 4.42(exp. 6b)

Raghuvaṃśa 4.89 – 5.8(exp. 9a)

Raghuvaṃśa 5.8 – 5.16(exp. 8b)

Raghuvaṃśa 10.4 – 10.14(exp. 9b)

Raghuvaṃśa 10.14 – 10.26(exp. 10a)

Raghuvaṃśa 14.85 – 15.7(exp. 12)

Raghuvaṃśa 15.8 – 15.20(exp. 11b)

Raghuvaṃśa 15.68 – 15.79(exp. 10b)

Raghuvaṃśa 15.79 – 15.91(exp. 11a)

Raghuvaṃśa 15.91 – 15.102(exp. 5a)

Raghuvaṃśa 15.102 – 16.7(exp. 4b)

Raghuvaṃśa 16.78 – 16.87(exp. 5b)

Raghuvaṃśa 16.87 – 17.8(exp. 6a)

Raghuvaṃśa 17.8 – 17.20(exp. 4a)

Raghuvaṃśa 17.20 – 17.32(exp. 3b)

Raghuvaṃśa 17.32 – 17.44(exp. 3a)

Raghuvaṃśa 17.44 – 17.56(exp. 2)

The folios must have been numbered in the right-hand margin of the verso. However, since the leaves are torn at the right, no foliation has been preserved. Only on three leaves can figure-numerals be observed, which may have been added by a second hand. The leaf on exp. 2 has the figure 78, the leaf on exp. 3b is numbered 77, and on the leaf on exp. 6a – which is a recto side (!) – a hardly legible number 76 can be seen.

The MS contains a considerable number of scribal errors, only a very few of which have been corrected by a second hand.

Excerpts

Beginning

(1) ‑tnīṃ rathād avaruroha ca ||

tasmai sabhyāḥ sabhār///4 guptatamendriyāḥ |

arhanām (!) arhete (!) cakru (!) munayo nayacakṣuṣe ||

vidheḥ sāyantanasyānte sa dadarśa taponidhiṃ |

anvāsinam (!) a///5(2) ‑yeva hivirbhujaṃ (!) || (exp. 7b, l. 1–2)

End

apathena pravṛtto na jā(tū)pacito pi saḥ |

vṛddhau nadīmukheneva prasthānaṃ lavaṇāṃbhasaḥ ||

durggāṇi durggrahāṇy āsaṃs tasya roddhur api (6) dviṣāṃ |

na hi siho (!) gajāskandī bhayād giriguhāsayaḥ ||

kāmaṃ prakṛtivairāgyaṃ sadyaḥ samayituṃ kṣamaḥ |

yasya kāryaḥ pratīkāraḥ sa taṃ naivopapādayet ||

śakyeṣv evādbhavam vātrā (!) tasya śaktima.. .. (exp. 2, l. 5–6)

«Sub-colophons:»

iti raghuvaṃśe mahākāvye ⁅ca⁆turthaḥ sarggaḥ || (exp. 9a, l. 1)

/// raghuva⁅ṃ⁆śe ma⁅hā⁆///(3)tāparityāgo<ref name="ftn1">^{Read: mahākāvye sītāparityāgo.}</ref> nāma caturdaśaḥ sarggaḥ || (exp. 12, l. 2–3)

raghuvaṃśe mahākāvye svarggagamano nāma pañcadaśaḥ sarggaḥ || (exp. 4b, l. 2)

raghuvaṃśe ma⁅hā]///(3)vye<ref name="ftn2">^{Read: mahākāvye.}</ref> ṣoḍaśaḥ sarggaḥ || (exp. 6a, l. 2–3)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 25/8

Date of Filming 06-09-1970

Exposures 14

Used Copy Berlin

Type of Film negative

Remarks The index card at the beginning has been microfilmed twice.

Catalogued by DD

Date 25-07-2003

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