Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: C 20/8
Title: Kātantra
Dimensions: 24.9 x 8.4 cm x 77 folios
Material: paper?
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Vyākaraṇa
Date:
Acc No.: Kesar 191
Remarks: folio number uncertain;

Reel No. C 20-8 Inventory No.: 30856, 17042

Reel No.: C 20/8–C 21/1

Title Kātantravṛtti

Remarks a commentary on Śarvavarman's Kātantravyākaraṇa

Author Durgasiṃha

Subject Vyākaraṇa

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material paper

State incomplete; available folios: 1–75 and 1–77; some folios (fols. 2–15, first) are damaged on the right-hand side with minor loss of the text.

Size 24.0 x 8.5 cm

Folios 152

Lines per Folio 6–8

Foliation figures in the middle of the right-hand margin on the verso and

śrī is written in the middle of the left-hand margin on the verso; Foliation restarts in new chapter ākhyātaprakaraṇa (in exp. 37 of the second reel)

Scribe Sūryarāma

Date of Copying SAM (NS) 755

Place of Deposit Kaisher Library

Accession No. 191

Manuscript Features

jñānan tu śaṅkarād icched dhanam icched hutāsanāt |

ārogyaṃ bhāskarād icchen mokṣam icchej janārdanāt ||

caṃśe sūtram idaṃ vyarthaṃ yatkṛtaṃ śarvvavarmaṇā |

tasmottarapadaṃ brūhi yadi vetsi kalāpakaṃ || etc.

The manuscript contains the text from the beginning to the end of the ākhyātaprakaraṇa.

Excerpts

Beginning

❖ oṃ namaḥ sarvvajñāya ||

śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ||

devadevaṃ praṇamyādau sarvvajñaṃ sarvvadarśinaṃ |

kātantrasya pravakṣyāmi vyākhyānaṃ śārvvavarmmikaṃ ||

siddho varṇṇasamāmnāyaḥ |

siddhaḥ khalu varṇṇānāṃ samāmnāyo veditavyaḥ || na punaranyatopadiṣṭavya ity arthaḥ || (fol. 1v1–3, exp. 4t)

End

arapūrvve dve sandhyakṣare ca guṇaḥ ||

ara pūrvve dve sandhyakṣare ca guṇaḥ iti saṃjñite || ekaṃ pūrvvam aikāram āprayujyete | aparañcaikāram apekṣate | guṇaḥ pradeśāḥ nāmāntayor ddhātuvikaraṇayor gguṇa ity evam ādayaḥ || 34 ||

ār uttare ca vṛddhiḥ ||

ār uttare ca sandhyakṣare ca vṛddhir iti saṃjñite ār ai au vṛddhiḥ pradeśāḥ |

vṛddhīr ādau guṇam ity evam ādayaḥ || 35 ||

iti daurggasiṃhyāṃ vṛttau ākhyāte aṣṭamapādaḥ samāptaḥ || ❁ || (fol. 77v5–9, exp. 116)

Colophon

samvat 755 āṣāḍhakṛṣṇatrayodaśi sampūrṇam iti likhitaṃ śrīsūryyarāmeṇa svārthe || ❖ || śubhaṃ || śrīṣaṅkarāya prītir astu || ❖ || (fol. 77v9, exp. 116)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. C 20/8–C 21/1

Date of Filming 15-12-1975

Exposures 164 (47+117)

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks two exposures of fols. 18v–19r, 22v–23r and 57v–58r of the first foliation.

two exposures of fols. 1v–2r and 58v–59r of the second foliation.

three exposures of fols. 41v–42r of the first foliation.

Catalogued by RT

Date 28-12-2006

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