A 390-9 Meghadūta

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Filmed in: A 390/9
Title: Meghadūta
Dimensions: 21.3 x 10.1 cm x 22 folios
Material: paper?
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Kāvya
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 5/3221
Remarks:


Reel No. A 390-9 Inventory No. 38190

Title Meghadūta

Author Kālidāsa

Subject Kāvya

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State complete

Size 21.3 x 10.1 cm

Folios 22

Lines per Folio 9

Foliation figures on the verso, in the upper left-hand margin above the marginal title me.dū and in the lower right-hand margin under the word rāma

Scribe Girirājabhaṭṭa

Date of Copying VS 1732

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 5/3221

Manuscript Features

Excerpts

Beginning

|| śrīgopālo jayati || 

kaścit kāṃtāvirahaguruṇā svādhikāraprama(2)ttaḥ

śāpenāstaṃ gamitamahimā varṣabhogyena (!) bhartuḥ || 

yakṣaś cakre jana(3)katanayāsnānapuṇyodakeṣu

snigdhacchāyātaruṣu vasatiṃ rāma(4)giryāśrameṣu || 1 || 

tasmin nadrau katicid abalā viprayuktaḥ sa kā(5)mī

nītvā māsān kanakavalayabhraṃśariktaprakoṣṭhaḥ

āṣāḍha(6)sya prathamadivase medham āśliṣṭasānuṃ

vaprakrīḍāpariṇatagaja(7)prekṣaṇīyaṃ dadarśa || 2 || (fol. 1v1–7)

End

taṃ saṃdeśaṃ jaladhara(2)varo divyavācācacakṣe

prāṇāṃ stasyā janahitarato rakṣituṃ yakṣa(3)badhvāḥ || 

śrutvo[[prāpyo]]daṃtaṃ pramuditamanāḥ sāpitasthau svabhartuḥ

keṣāṃ na (4) syād abhimataphalā prārthanā hy uttameṣu || 24 || 

śrutvā vārtāṃ ja(5)ladakathitāṃ tāṃ dhaneso pi sadyaḥ

śāpasyāṃtaṃ sadayahṛ(6)dayaḥ saṃvidhāyāstakopaḥ | 

saṃyojyaitau vigalitaśucau (7) daṃpatī hṛṣṭacittau

bhogān iṣṭān avi[[ra]]tasukhaṃ bhojayāmāsa (1) śaśvat || 25 || (fol. 22r1–7, 22v1)

Colophon

iti śrīkālidāsakṛtau meghadūtākhyaṃ mahā(2)kāvyaṃ samāptaṃ || śubham astu ||

itthaṃ bhūtaṃ sucaritam idaṃ meghadū(3)taṃ ca nāmnā

kāmakrīḍāvirahitajane viprayoge vinodi (!)

prema(4)ś cāsmin nitinipuṇatāṃ buddhibhāvaṃ kavīnāṃ

natvāryāyāś ca(5)raṇayugalaṃ kālidaś cakāra || 1 ||

|| śrī || śrī || saṃvat 1737(6) varṣa āśvinamāse kṛṣṇapakṣe pratipaddine sarojapuṭabhedane (7) likhitam idaṃ kāvyaṃ bhaṭṭagiridhareṇa svārthaṃ parārthaṃ ca || (fol. 22v1–7)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 390/9

Date of Filming 13-07-1972

Exposures 25

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks text begins from exposure 3

Catalogued by JU/MS

Date 08-09-2006

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