B 320-24 Meghadūta

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 320/24
Title: Meghadūta
Dimensions: 19.5 x 6.8 cm x 61 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Kāvya
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/1421
Remarks:

Reel No. B 320-24 Inventory No. 38180

Title Meghadūta and #Meghadūtaṭīkā

Remarks The author of the commentary is unknown.

Author Kālidāsa

Subject Kāvya

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material paper

State incomplete

Size 19.5 x 6.8 cm

Folios 61

Lines per Folio 5

Foliation figures in the middle left-hand and right-hand margins of the verso

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 1/1421

Manuscript Features

The basic text covers vv. 1–15 (Pūrvamegh), and the commentary covers vv. 1–34 (Pūrvamegha).

The commentary and basic text are written in a different hand.

Fols. 1v–6v contain the basic text, and fols. 7r–61v contain the commentary.

Excerpts

Beginning

śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || 

kaścit kāṃtāvirahaguruṇā svādhikāra (!) pra(2)matta (!)

śāpenāstaṃ gamitamahimā varṣabhogyena (!) bharttuḥ || 

yakṣa (!) cakre (3) janakatanayā snātapuṇyodakeṣu

snigdhacchāyātaruṣu vasa(4)tiṃ rāmagiryyāśrameṣu || (fol. 1v1–4)

End

śū(3)linaḥ śivasya tasya ślāghyāṃ sandhyākāle paṭahatāṃ pūjāḍhakkā tvaṃ kurvvan āmandrāṇāṃ (4) mahāgambhīrāṇāṃ garjjitānām avikalaṃ saṃpūrṇaṃ phalaṃ prayojanaṃ lapsyase prāpsyasi tathā ca (5) prātaḥ śivālaye paṭahatvaṃ ataḥ śivārādhanajaṃ puṇyaṃ syād iti bhāvaḥ asmād eva paṭupa- /// (fol. 61v2–5)

=== Colophon === (fol.)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 320/24

Date of Filming 13-07-1972

Exposures 64

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks two exposure of fols. 39v–40v

Catalogued by MS

Date 18-70-2006

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