A 1350-1 Veṇīsaṃhāra

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Filmed in: A 1350/1
Title: Veṇīsaṃhāra
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Material: paper?
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Reel No. A 1350-1 Inventory No. 86616

Title Veṇīsaṃhāra

Author Bhaṭṭanārāyaṇa

Subject Nāṭaka

Language Sanskrit, Prakrit

Reference BSP 2, p. 67, no. 137 (3/609).

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State incomplete; damaged on the sides, but with no loss of text

Size 26.0 x 9.3 cm

Folios 50

Lines per Folio 8

Foliation figures in the lower right-hand margin of the verso under the word rāma; the sides of many folios are broken, so the folio numbers no longer appear.

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 3/609

Manuscript Features

Available folios 3–6, 8–53

The manuscript starts near the beginning of the first aṅka and runs up to almost the end of the work. At the end, some sentences and two verses are lost.

In many folios, the letters are slightly disrupted on the right side.

'On the top left of fol. 3r is written bhiśmaparvako ṭīkā bhanī calānamā leṣeko ('in the register, listed as a commentary on the Bhismaparva).

Excerpts

Beginning

-na sahadevenānugamyamānaḥ kruddho bhīmasena ita evābhivartate || tad ayuktam etasya kruddhasya purataḥ sthātuṃ || tad ito vayam anyatra gachāmaḥ (!) || iti niḥ⟨||⟩krāṃtau prastāvanā || tataḥ praviśati yathānirdiṣṭo bhīmaḥ sahadevaś ca || (fol. 3r1–2)

End

kṛṣṇaḥ || gṛhītaḥ sa durātmā nakulena tat kathaya mahāraja kim asmāt paraṃ samīhitaṃ || yudhi || evaṃ puṃḍarīkākṣa na kiṃcin na dadāti bhagavān prasannaḥ || ahaṃ puruṣasādhāraṇa- (fol. 31v7–8)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 1350/1

Date of Filming 03-11-88

Exposures 54

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks = A 352/17

There are two exposures of fols. 24v–25r.

Catalogued by RT

Date 28-12-2002

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