B 358-5 Atharvaṇanakṣatrakalpa

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 358/5
Title: Atharvaṇanakṣatrakalpa
Dimensions: 27.6 x 12.6 cm x 10 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Karmakāṇḍa (vaidika, āgamika, tāntrika etc.)
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 5/6494
Remarks:

Reel No. B 358-5 Inventory No. 5184

Title Atharvaṇanakṣatrakalpa

Subject Karmakāṇḍa

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State complete

Size 27.6 x 12.6 cm

Folios 11

Lines per Folio 9–10

Foliation figures in both margins on the verso, in the left hand margin under the abbreviation na and in the right hand margin under the word śrīḥ

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 5/6594

Manuscript Features

On the cover-leaf(1r) is written

atharvaṇanakṣatrakalpaḥ

Fol.*11r is empty.

Excerpts

Beginning

śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ | |

atha nakṣatrāṇām upacāraṃ vakṣyāmaḥ

ahatavāsā agneḥ purastād ahatena vastreṇodagdeśenāsanānyavacchādya kṛttikādīny ṛkṣāṇy āvāhayed āvāhaviṣyāmi śūbhāṃ kṛttikām ity aṣṭāviṃśatibhiḥ

āvāhayiṣyāmi śūbhāṃ kṛttikāṃ devapūjitāṃ.

ehi sādhāraṇe devi jyeṣṭhe dakṣasute śubhe.

ehi rohiṇi dharmajñe dhruvakarmasu śobhane.

āvāhayāmi vayam adhakāṃ rāśivatprabhāṃ.

ehi me andhake devi mṛdukarmasu śobhane.

ārdrām āvāhayiṣyāmi nakṣatraṃ vāhūsaṃjñakaṃ.

vetyārdre cārusarvāṅge dāruṇe rudrasaṃmite.

ṛkṣaṃ āvāhayiṣyāmi nakṣatradharmaṇyanu. punarvasuṃ. (!)

punarvasvor ihāgaccha dhruvakarmaprasādhake. | 1 | (fol. 1v1–7)

End

asya sūktena saṃpātya bandhyo brīhiyavo maṇiḥ

alaṃkṛtya tathābhyarcya tato dvau paridhāpayet.

pākayajñavidhānena śrapayitvā caruṃ budhaḥ

ācāryakena taṃ hutvā satra(!) saṃsthāpayet tatḥ

tadanvāhāryaśeṣaṃ tu brāhmaṇān bhojayet tataḥ

bhojayet peśalaṃ cānnaṃ tuṣyeyur yena ca dvijāḥ

brāhmaṇo daśa gāṃ dadyād anaḍvāhan tato [ʼ]dhikaṃ.

sīrādhikaṃ tato vaiśyas tathā prādeśiko hayaṃ.

rājā dadyād varaṃ grāmasamūho rājavat tathā.

yathoktān sakṣiṇāṃ dadyād sakalaṃ phalam aśnute

sakalaṃ phalam śnuta iti. | | (fol. 10v1–6)

Colophon

ity ātharvaṇo nakṣatrakalpaḥ samāptaḥ | | śubhaṃ bhūyāt. | | avighnam astu śrīḥ (fol. 10v6)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 358/5

Date of Filming 25-10-1972

Exposures 13

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by MS/RA

Date 03-07-2009

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