A 417-9 Bṛhatsaṃhitā

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 417/9
Title: Bṛhatsaṃhitā
Dimensions: 26.1 x 11.6 cm x 140 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Jyotiṣa
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 4/1801
Remarks:

Reel No. A 417/9

Inventory No. 13181

Title Varāhamihirasaṃhitā

Remarks

Author Varāhamihira

Subject Jyautiṣa

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State incomplete

Size 26.0 x 11.5 cm

Binding Hole

Folios 140

Lines per Folio 8–16

Foliation figures on the verso, in the upper left-hand margin under the marginal title va. ha. saṃ and in the lower right-hand margin under the word śivaḥ

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 4/1801

Manuscript Features

On the exp. 2 is written: varāhamihirasaṃhitā

From fol. 17b11 is continued the text in different hand.

On the lower margin of the verso or recto side is added notes damaged.

Miss pagination 98 instead of fol. 97.

Excerpts

Beginning

śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ||    ||

jayati jaga[[taḥ]] prasūtir
isvātmā sahajabhūṣaṇaṃ nabhasaḥ |
drutakanakasadṛśa
śatamayūkhamālārcitaḥ savitā || 1 ||

prathamamuni(2)kathitam
avitatham avalokya granthavistarasyārtham |
nātilaghuvipularacanābhir
udyataḥ spaṣṭam abhidhātum || 2 ||

muniviracitam idam iti yac
cirantanaṃ (3) sādhu na manujagrathitam |
tulyerthe ’kṣarabhedād
amantrake kā viśeṣoktiḥ || 3 || (fol. 1v1–3)

End

vai kaṃkaṭaśrīphalakāśmarīṣu
vrāhmīdhyutīḥ kṣemataro sudārā (!) ||
vṛddhir veterkepracuraṃ (!) ca te(5)jaḥ
putrā madhūke sa[[gu]]ṇāḥ priyatvaṃ || 3 ||

lakṣmīḥ śīrīṣe ca tathā karaṃje
plakṣerddhasīddhiḥ (!) sam abhipsitā syāt (6) ||
mānyatvam āpnoti janasya jātyāṃ
prādhānyam aśvatthatarau vadaṃti || 4 ||

ārogyam āyur vadaṃri (!) bṛhatyau(7)r (!)
aiśvaryalabdhiḥ khadire saṃvatve (!) ||
dravyāṇi ceṣṭāny atimuktake syuḥ
prāpnoti tānyava (!) punaḥ kadaṃbaḥ || 5 ||

(8) niyer (!) vyāptiḥ †karavirantalabbir†
bhāḍīre syād anna[[m e]]va prabhū[[taṃ]] ||
śamyāṃ śatrun apahaty arjune ca
syāmāyāṃ ce- (fol. 140v4–8)

Sub-colophon

iti varāhasaṃhītāyāṃ padmarāgamūlyaparīkṣādhyāyas try aśītita(3)maḥ || 83 || (fol. 138r2–3)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 417/9

Date of Filming 03-08-1972

Exposures 144

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks Text begins from exp. 3; two exposures of fols. 19v; focus out fols. 3v–4r, 73v–74r

Catalogued by JU/MS

Date 29-05-2006