Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: C 17/4
Title: Kāvyādarśa
Dimensions: 21.5 x 4.5 cm x 12 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Kāvya
Date:
Acc No.: Kesar 160
Remarks:

Reel No. C 17-4

MTM Inventory No.: 37273

Reel No.: C 17/4a

Title Kāvyādarśa

Author Daṇḍin

Subject Alaṃkāra

Language Sanskrit

Reference Dimitrov 2004

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material palm-leaf

State incomplete; only fols. 28–31, 36–40, 43–44 and 47 are preserved.

Size 21.7 x 5 cm

Binding Hole 1, rectangular, slightly to the left of centre

Folios 12

Lines per Folio 6–7

Foliation figures in the middle of the left-hand margin on the recto added subsequently by a second hand, perhaps not earlier than the 15th or 16th c. (see Rajbanshi 1974, p. 110, plate 91)

Date of Copying undated

Place of Deposit Kesar Library

Accession No. 9/160

Used for Edition yes (fols. 36–40, 43–44 and 47 by Dimitrov 2004)

Manuscript Features

The MS contains marginal corrections added by the scribe himself and apparently by two more correctors. A great number of deletions can be observed in the text. The foliation was done when three folios after fol. 29 containing Kāvyādarśa 2.244c–2.288a were already lost.

Excerpts

«Beginning (fol. 28):»

-thā |

saṃsayātiṣayādīnāṃ (!) vyaktau kaś cin nidarsyate || (Kāvyādarśa 2.214bcd)

«End (fol. 29):»

gato stam arkko bhātīndur yānti vāsāya pakṣiṇaḥ |

i­­‑ (Kāvyādarśa 2.242abc)

«Beginning (fol. 30):»

-ṇāṃ śonitaṅ (!) karasaṃpuṭaiḥ |

kauṇapāḥ saha nṛtyanti kabandhair a[[ntra]]bhūṣaṇāḥ || (Kāvyādarśa 2.286)

«End (fol. 31):»

rāgam ādarsayan eṣa vāru­‑ (Kāvyādarśa 2.316ab)

«Beginning (fol. 36):»

-n nu te ||

vāraṇo⟪ḥ⟫ vā⟪ḥ⟩⟩ raṇoddāmo hayo vā smara durddharaḥ [[|]]

na⟪ā⟫ato nāyato ʼntan nas tad aho vikramas tava || (Kāvyādarśa 3.8d–9)

«End (fol. 40):»

na sraddadhe⟪..⟫ vācam ala(6)jja⟪..⟩⟩ mithyā⟪..⟫

bhavadvidhānām a⟪..⟫samāhitānāṃ |

bhavadvidhānām a⟪ḥ⟫samāhitānāṃ ⟪|⟩⟩

bhavadvidhānām a⟪ḥ⟫māhī­‑ (Kāvyādarśa 3.65)

«Beginning (fol. 43):»

.. .. ⁅su⁆rāsurāsārisāraḥ sārāsisārasaḥ |

sasāra sarasīs sī⟪balabhadra⟫rī sasūrus sa sarārasī (!) || (Kāvyādarśa 3.94)

«End (fol. 44):»

vijitānnabhavadveṣigurupādahato janaḥ |

himāpahā­‑ (Kāvyādarśa 3.120abc)

«Beginning (fol. 47):»

padaprayogo siṣṭeṣṭaṃ (!) na siṣṭeṣṭo hi duṣyati || (Kāvyādarśa 3.148cd)

«End (fol. 47):»

na saṃhitāṃ vivakṣāmīty asaṃdhānaṃ pa.. .⁅u ya⁆ (Kāvyādarśa 3.159ab)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. C 17/4a

Date of Filming 10-12-1970

Exposures 16

Used Copy Berlin

Type of Film negative

Remarks Fol. 44v and the recto side of the last folio were filmed twice, on exps. 14 and 15. Fol. 47 is placed between fols. 40 and 43. On exps. 15–16 there is a single folio of a different text.

Catalogued by DD

Date 09-02-2003

Bibliography

Dimitrov, Dragomir

2004Śabdālaṃkāradoṣavibhāga – Die Unterscheidung der schwierigen Lautfiguren und der Fehler. Kritische Ausgabe des dritten Kapitels von Daṇḍins Poetik Kāvyādarśa und der tibetischen Übertragung Sñan ṅag me loṅ samt dem ältesten erhaltenen Sanskrit-Kommentar des Ratnaśrījñāna, dem ältesten tibetischen Kommentar des Dpaṅ Blo gros brtan pa und einer deutschen Übersetzung des Sanskrittextes der Poetik. Von Dragomir Dimitrov. Marburg 2004. [unpublished PhD thesis]

Rajbanshi, Shankar Man

1974“The Evolution of Devanagari script (Devanāgarī lipiko vikāsa)”, in: Kailash – A Journal of Himalayan Studies. Volume II (1974), Numbers 1 and 2. Kathmandu 1974, pp. 23–120.