A 163-2 Puraścaryārṇava

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 163/2
Title: Puraścaryārṇava
Dimensions: 33.5 x 14 cm x 405 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Tantra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 3/495
Remarks:

Reel No. A 163-2 Inventory No. 56265

Title Puraścaryārṇava

Author Pratāpasiṃha Sāha

Subject Śaivatantra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State complete

Size 33.5 x 14.0 cm

Folios 405+1=406 (the fol. 71 is mentioned two times but the text isn't double that's why one folio should be added)

Lines per Folio 11

Foliation figures in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation pu. śca. va. (in the some folios of begenning but in the almost folios pu. śca. only) and in the lower right-hand margin under the word rāmaḥ

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 3/495

Manuscript Features

The folio, numbered 71 is mentioned two times. But the text is not double. The fol. 71 which is mentioned the second time must be the fol. 72 and foliation should be run so on.

Excerpts

Beginning

śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ||     ||

śuṇḍādaṇḍapracaṇḍaprahatihaṭhadalat prauḍhador daṇḍadipya (!)

daitandrānīkamuṇḍotkararacitasamit (!) tāṇḍavakṣoṇi(2)śobhaḥ ||

pratyūhadhvāntadhāmādhipatir adhipatiḥ siddhisiddho gaṇānāṃ.

dadyād adrīndrakanyāsmaraharanayanānandasaṃvarddhano vaḥ || 1 || (fol. 1v1–2)

End

vibhraty adbhutabhūtibhūtapavaco vaici(405v1)tracitrāmṛta-

strotaḥ śālinisannibaṃdhanasarit saṃbhedam abhyarhitaṃ ||

tavye smin naradevanirmitapuraścaryārṇave dvādaśaḥ

sadyuktisphuṭamauktikotkara(2)ruco ttuṅgas taraṅgo gataḥ ||     || (fol. 405r11–405v2)

Colophon

iti śrīgirirājacakracūḍāmaṇinaranārāyaṇetyādivividhavirudāvalīvirājamānamānonna(3)taśrīmanmahārājādhirājaśrīpratāpasiṃhasāhadevaviracite puraścaraṇārṇave (!) brāhmyādimaṃtrapuraścaraṇapurvakayaṃtrastavakavacādipura(4)ścaraṇabhedanirūpaṇaṃ nāma dvādaśas taraṃgaḥ parisamāpto gamat || 12 ||     || śubham astu sarvadā ||     || śubham || (fol. 405v2–4)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 163/02

Date of Filming 15-10-1971

Exposures 424

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks two exposures of fols. 7v–8r, 33v–34r, 38v–39r, 47v–48r, 51v–52r, 87v–88r, 104v–105r, 191v–192r, 264v–265r, 292v–293r, 309v–310r,336v–337r, 344v–345r, and three exposures of fols. 183v–184r

Catalogued by

Date 08-02-2007

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