Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: E 402/17
Title: Puraścaryārṇava
Dimensions: 30 x 12.5 cm x 123 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Tantra
Date:
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Reel No. E 402-17

Inventory No.: 56268

Title Puraścaryārṇava

Author Pratāpasiṃha Śāha

Subject Tantra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State incomplete, available folios: 1–94 and 94–123.

Size 30.0 x 12.5 cm

Folios 124

Lines per Folio 10–11

Foliation figures in the lower right margin of the verso

Illustrations There are sāriṇīs on fols. 22v, 23v, 24v, 25r, 26r, 27r, 28r, 28v, 38v, 40r, 42v, 43v, 55r and 55v.

Owner / Deliverer R. B. Kāyastha

Place of Deposit Kathmandu

Manuscript Features

The text in this manuscript runs from the beginning of the text up to the end of the fourth taraṅga.

On fols. 122v–123v, following the Puraścaryārṇava, there is an advertisement for four books, either published or shortly to be published the Nepālamāhātmya, the Nityakarmaprakāśikā, the Dānakhaṇḍa of the Caturvargacintāmaṇi and the Himavatkhaṇḍa.

There are two exposures of fols. 35v–37r, 53v–54r, 58v–59r, 63v–64r, 74v–75r, 85v–86r and 99v–100r.

Excerpts

Beginning

atha puraścaryārṇavaḥ || ||

śrīdakṣiṇāmūrtigurubhyo namaḥ || ||

śuṇḍādaṇḍapracaṇḍaprahatihaṭhadalat prauḍhador ddaṇḍadṛṣya ||

ddaitya(!)ndrānīkaśuṇḍotkararacitasamit tāṇḍavakṣoṇiśobhaḥ |

pratyūhadhvāntadhāmādhipatir adhipatir ⟨aviyatiḥ⟩ siddhasiddho gaṇānāṃ |

dadyād adrīndrakanyāsmaraharanayanānandasaṃvarddhano vaḥ || 1 || (fol. 1v1–3)

End

evaṃ kriyāvatīdīkṣā saṃpaddātri(!) nirūpitā |

rājñā dhanāḍhyavaiśyānāṃ viprāṇāṃ vyavasāyiṇām ||

ayaṃ dīkṣākraśaḥ prokto bhogayuk siddhim icchatām | || ||

iti kriyāvatīdīkṣā paripurṇā |

bibhraty adbhutabhu(!)tibhūta(!)pavaco vecitryacitrāmṛta(!)

srotaḥ śālini sannibandhanasarit saṃbhedam abhyarhitam |

turyaḥ śrīnaradevanimitapuraścaryāna(!)ve prasphura⟪ma⟫t

sadyuktisphutamauktikotkararucotuṅgaṣṭaraṃgo (!) gataḥ || || (fol. 122v1–3)

Sub-colophon

iti śrīmanmahārājādhirājaśrīpratāpasiṃhasāhaviracite puraścaryārṇave kriyāvatīdīkṣāvidhir nāma caturthas taraṅgaḥ || 4 || (fol. 122v3–4)

Colophon

Microfilm Details

Reel No. E 402/17

Date of Filming 20-11-1977

Exposures 137

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by RT

Date 24-04-2003

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