A 1114-6 Sarasvatīstava

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 1114/6
Title: Sarasvatīstava
Dimensions: 18.8 x 8.4 cm x 5 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Stotra
Date: VS 1915
Acc No.: NAK 6/1406
Remarks:

Reel No. A 1114-6 Inventory No. 101903

Title Sarasvatīstava

Remarks ascribed to the Brahmapurāṇa

Subject Stotra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material Nepali paper

State complete

Size 18.8 x 8.4 cm

Folios 5

Lines per Folio 6

Foliation figures on the verso, in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation sa. sto. and in the lower right-hand margin under the word rāma

Date of Copying ŚS 1780, VS 1915

Place of Copying Viśālanagara

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 6/1406

Manuscript Features

There are two exposures of fols. 3v–4r.

Excerpts

Beginning

śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ||     ||

oṁ namaḥ śrīvāgvādinyai⟨ḥ⟩ ||

oṁ asya śrīsarasvatīstotrasya sragdharā-ṛṣir anuṣṭup chaṃdaḥ śrīmahāsarasvatīdevatā mama sakalavāgjāḍyāpanuttaye śrīsarasvatīprītyarthe sarasvati(!)stotramaṃtrajape viniyogaḥ || ṛṣyādikaṃ nyasya(!) ṣaṭ(!)dīrghasvarād †vaja†māyābījena karaṣaḍaṃgaṃ nyaset || (fol. 1v1–4)

End

brahmacārī vratī maunī trayodaśyān nirāmiṣaḥ ||

sārasvataṃ(!) japāt pāṭhāt sa syād i(ṣṭvā)rthalābhavān || 10 ||

pakṣadvayatrayodaśyā⟨ṃ⟩m ekaviṃśatisaṃkhyayā⟨ḥ⟩ ||

avicchinna(!) paṭhed yas tu sa kavitvaṃ labhed bhusaṃ(!) || 11 ||

sarvapāpavinirmuktaḥ śubhago lokaviśrutaḥ ||

vāṃchitaṃ phalam āpnoti loke smin nātra saṃśayaḥ || 12 ||

iti brahmā svayaṃ prāha sarasvatyā[s] stavaṃ śubham ||

prayatnena paṭhen nityaṃ sāmṛtattvaṃ prayacchati || 13 || (fol. 4v4–5r3)

Colophon

iti śrībrahmapurāṇe sarasvati(!)stavaṃ(!) śubham(!) ||     ||

oṁ aiṁ hrīṁ aiṁ hrīṁ vada vada vāgvādinī svāhā ||

jāpa 1008 ||

śrīśāke 1780 saṃvat 1915 sāla āśvinavadi13 roja3 mukāma viśālanagare likhitam idaṃ pustakaṃ śubham ||     || (fol. 5v3–6)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 1114/6

Date of Filming 03-07-1986

Exposures 9

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by MS

Date 16-09-2008

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