A 425-9 Vaiṣṇavapraśna

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 425/9
Title: Vaiṣṇavapraśna
Dimensions: 31.5 x 15.6 cm x 41 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Jyotiṣa
Date: VS 1957
Acc No.: NAK 3/576
Remarks: b Nārāyaṇadāsa Siddha; A 1339/22-

Reel No. A 425/9

Inventory No. 84440

Title Vaiṣṇavaśāstra

Remarks an alternative title is Vaiṣṇavapraśna

Author Nārāyaṇadāsa

Subject Jyotiṣa

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State complete

Size 31.5 x 15.6 cm

Binding Hole

Folios 41

Lines per Folio 11

Foliation figures on the verso, in the upper left-hand margin under the marginal title praśna and in the lower right-hand margin under the word rāmaḥ

Date of Copying SAM (VS) 1957

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 3/576

Manuscript Features

Excerpts

Beginning

śrīgaṇeśaṃ vande ||    || śrīmahāviṣṇave namaḥ ||    || śrīsarasvatyai namaḥ ||

nārāyaṇaṃ paramapuruṣam (!) ādide(2)vaṃ
jyotirmayaṃ śubhakaraṃ ca carācaraiśaṃ ||
śāṃtaṃ praṇamya śirasā dvijapuṃgavānāṃ
praśnārṇavaplavamahaṃ prakaromi śāstraṃ || 1 ||

(3) śrībrahmadāsanayajātanayaḥ suvidvān
[[śrīmān]] gusāyi nṛpatir yadunāthabhaktaḥ ||
vārāhatājikamakuṃdamataṃ samīkṣya
nārāyaṇa (!) pa(4)ramaśāstram idaṃ karoti || 2 || (fol. 1v1–4)

End

śrīmanagesā (!) inipates tvacire sadaiva
lakṣmīr vinodayatu bhaktaptiyāgragamyā ||
ye(1)nākhilāgamavidāṃ dvijapuṃgavānāṃ
jñānāya śāstram avalaṃ (!) gaditaṃ pṛthivyāṃ || 4 ||

jayati jagati viṣṇo (!) bhakta(2)dhūryakriyāvān
praśam iti bhavabhīti brahmadāsātmajo yaṃ ||
nikhilakalukhachetrī (!) mohadātrī ca yasya
sphurati ha(3)rikarotiḥ siddhanārāyaṇāya || 5 || (fol. 40v11–41r3)

Colophon

iti śrībrahmadāsaputraśrīnārāyaṇadāsasiddhaviracite vaiṣṇavaśā(4)stra (!) samāpta (!) śubham ||

yādṛśa -------- na(5)dīyate (!)||    ||    || ❁ ||

iti samvat 1957 sāla miti vaiśākha śukla 7 roja (6) 5 tad dine vaiṣṇavaśāstra (!) samāptam || śubhm (!) ||    ||    ||    || (fol. 41r3–6)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 425/9

Date of Filming 02-10-1972

Exposures 43

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks retake on A 1339/22

Catalogued by MS

Date 21-09-2006