A 164-3 Puraścaryārṇava

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 164/3
Title: Puraścaryārṇava
Dimensions: 36 x 16.5 cm x 409 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Tantra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 4/1051
Remarks:

Reel No. A 164-3 Inventory No. 56256

Title Puraścaryārṇava

Author Pratāpasiṃha Sāhadeva

Subject Śaivatantra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material Nepali paper

State complete, missing fols. 142r–147r

Size 36.0 x 16.5 cm

Folios 409

Lines per Folio 11

Foliation figures in lower rigfht-hand margin of the verso up to fol. 241v, under the word rāma, the right hand margin on the verso, from the fol. 147v foliation is in upper left-hand margin under the marginal title pu.śca.va and word rāma is in lower right-hand margin

Date of Copying SAM 1857

King Pratāpasiṃha Sāhadeva

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 4/2051

Used for Edition Yes

See Shahadeva, 1968–1974

Manuscript Features

Index in exp. 3–15, foliated 1–13 in lower right-hand margin under the word rāma

Scribe left blank fols. 241v, 305v–305r.

Foliation is in both sides irregularly available.

Folios 289–294 are in descending order and verso is also placed in recto side.

295r appears after the 295v.

On the exp. 307t is available undefined portion of the same text? ... iti lakṣmīprakaraṇaṃ atha nīlakramādayaḥ

On the exp. 307 appears text copied in Indian paper contains the chapter asggrahamātari tuṣṭāyāṃ kiṃ grahair duritair api ||.. of the maṃgalāpiṅgalādipūjana on up to exp. 320; ends sahasradaśakaṃ tāvat puraścaraṇam ucyate | jñātṛ śreṣṭhatvam āpnoti japte tasya na saṃsayaḥ || nama āsuseṇāya (!) ityādī

Foliation is in middle right-hand margin of the verso appears from the exp. 333 and another foliation appears added on the lower right-hand corner is appear from the exp. 358t irregularly.

Excerpts

Beginning

śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || ||

śuṇḍādaṇḍapracaṇḍaprahatihaṭhadalat prauḍhadordaṇḍadṛpya[d]

daityendrānīkamuṇḍotkararacitasamit tāṇḍava(2)kṣoṇiśobhaḥ ||

pratyūhadhvāntadharmādhipatir adhipatiḥ siddhim iddho gaṇānāṃ

dadyād adrīndrakanyāsmaraharanayanānandasaṃvarddhano (3) vaḥ || 1 || (fol. 1v1–3)

End

vibhraty adbhutabhūtibhūtapavaco vaicitracitrāmṛta-

srotaḥ śālinisaṃnibadhanasarit saṃveda(1)m abhyarhitaṃ ||

navye smin naradevanirmmitapuraścaryārṇave dvādaśaḥ

sadyuktisphuṭamauktikotkararucot tuṃgastaraṃgo gataḥ ||❁ ||  (fol. 395v12, 396r1)

Colophon

iti śrīgirirājacakracūḍāmaṇinaranārāyaṇetyādivividhavirudāvalīvirājamānamānonnataśrīmanmahārājādhirājaśrīpratāpasiṃhasāhadevaviracite puraścaraṇārṇave (!) brāhmyādimaṃtrapuraścaraṇapūrvvakayaṃtrastavakavacādipuraścaraṇabhedanirūpaṇaṃ nāma dvādaśas taraṅgaḥ samāptaḥ ||   || śubham astu || [[saṃ 1857]] (fol. 396r2–4)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 0164/03

Date of Filming 17-10-1971

Exposures 426

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks two exposures of fols. 113v–114r, 131v–132r, 202v –203r,

Catalogued by MS

Date 16-05-2007

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