Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: C 19/6
Title: Kumārasambhava
Dimensions: 30.1 x 9.2 cm x 42 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Kāvya
Date: NS 862
Acc No.: Kesar 179
Remarks:

Reel No. C 19-6 Inventory No. 36820

Reel No.: C 19/6

Title Kumārasambhava

Subject Kāvya

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material paper

State complete

Size 30.1 x 9.2 cm

Folios 42

Lines per Folio 7–8

Foliation figures in the middle of the right-hand margin above the abbreviation kumā on the verso

Scribe Manoratha Siṃha

Date of Copying SAM (NS) 862

Place of Deposit Kaisher Library

Accession No. 179

Manuscript Features

Out of the 17 sargas only 1–7 sargas of the text is copied in this MS.

On fol. 1r some slokas are written.

Excerpts

Beginning

❖ oṃ namaḥ śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ||

saty uttarasyāṃ diśi devatātmā

himālayo nāma nagādhirājaḥ |

pūrvvāparau toyanidhī vigāhya (!)

sthitaḥ pṛthivyā iva mānadaṇdaḥ || 1 ||

yaṃ sarvvaśailāḥ parikalpya vatsaṃ

merau sthite dogdhari dohadakṣe ||

bhāsvanti ratnāni mahauṣadhīṃś ca

pṛthūpadiṣṭāṃ duduhur ddharitrīṃ || 2 || (fol. 1v1–3)

End

atha vibudhagaṇāṃs tān indumaulir vvimṛdya

kṣitidharapatikanyām ādadānaḥ kareṇa |

kaṇakakalaśayuktaṃ bhaktiśobhāsanāthaṃ

kṣitiviracitaśayyaṃ kautukāgāram āgāt ||

navapariṇayalajjābhūṣaṇāṃ tratra gaurīṃ

vadanam apaharantī tatkṛtākṣapam īśaḥ |

api śayanasakhībhyo dattavāca kathaṃcit

pramathasukhavikārair hāsayāmāsa gūḍham || (fol. 42r2–5)

Colophon

iti śrīmatkālidāsakṛtau kumārasambhavamahākāvye umāpariṇayo nāma saptamaḥ sarggaḥ || || ||

samvat 862 māgha sūdi padipadyātithau dhanestanakṣatre paridya yoge aṃgāravārasare makaralāśigate savitari sevarāśigate candramasi || likhiti bhūvaseśvarī karmmācāryyamanorathasiṃhana liṣitaṃ || yādṛṣṭaṃ puṣṭakaṃ dṛṣṭā tādṛṣṭaṃ liṣitaṃ mayā || jadi śuddhaṃ maśuddhaṃ vā mama doṣo na diyateḥ || || ||

❖ oṃ namaḥ śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || (fol. 42r5–42v2)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. C 19/6

Date of Filming 02-12-1975

Exposures 47

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks two exposures of fols. 36v–37r

Catalogued by RT

Date 24-11-2006

Bibliography