E 1685-31(5) Tārāṣṭaka

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: E 1685/31
Title: Tārāṣṭaka
Dimensions: 25 x 9.6 cm x 21 folios
Material: thyāsaphu
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Stotra
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Reel No. E 1685-31e

Title Tārāṣṭaka

Subject Stotra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State damaged

Size 25.0 x 9.6 cm

Binding Hole

Folios 21

Lines per Folio 9-14

Foliation none

Owner / Deliverer Dharma Vajrācārya

Place of Deposite Kathmandu

Manuscript Features

The manuscript is written by several hands and contains altogether twelve texts. On many pages there are later additions, which at places extend to several lines. Parts of the text are written in a neat and regular hand, the writing of others makes an unprofessional impression.

There is no foliation at all. Some folios are damaged and on several the writing is partly rubbed off which the result of loss of a few akṣaras.

The beginning of the Tārāṣṭaka has not been microfilmed, or is lost. Only the page which contains stanzas 7 and 8 remains.

The Strīvīryastaṃbhaḥ is only 3 lines long.

The last page has been microfilmed twice: On the last exposure and, erroneously, in the beginning, too.

Excerpts

Beginning

End

gavāśvakhacarā vyāghrādikā jaṃtavo ḍākinyaḥ kupitā(ṃ) na ++ntajāmā++++tale || 7 ||

lakṣma+++++++pādukamukhāḥ siddhās tathāvāriṇāṃ

stambhaś cāpi raṇāṃgane gajaghaṭāstaṃbhas tathā mo++

mānas tvatpada+++++++ siddhyaṃti te te gunāḥ

kāṃtiklāṃtamanobhavasya bhavati kṣudro pi vācaspatiḥ || 8 || (fol. 11v1-3)

Colophon

tarāṣṭakam idaṃ +++++++ paṭhen naraḥ |

prātar mmadhyāhnakāle ca śāyāhne niyataḥ śuciḥ ||

labhate kavitāṃ divyāṃ sarvvaśāstrārtha++++++ manaskarāṃ prāpya bhuttvā bhogān yathepsitān ||

kīrttiṃ kāṃtiṃ ca nairujyaṃ sarvveṣāṃ priyatāṃ vrajet |

++++ pi lokae ṣṭaprāpyāṃte mokṣam āpnuyāt ||

iti śrīśrīśrīmannīlataṃtre tārāṣṭakaṃ samāptaṃ || ||

jagadaṃbārppaṇam astu || || śubhaṃ || || (fol. 11v3-8)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. E 1685/31

Date of Filming 18-07-1984

Used Copy Berlin

Type of Film negative

Catalogued by AM

Date 22-02-2008