A 1376-19 Mudrārākṣasa

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 1376/19
Title: Mudrārākṣasa
Dimensions: 29 x 7.7 cm x 16 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Nāṭaka and Nāṭyaśāstra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 6/2754
Remarks:

Reel No. A 1376-19

Inventory No.: 98271

Reel No.: A 1376/19

Title Mudrārākṣasa

Author Viśākhadatta

Subject Nāṭaka

Language Sanskrit

Reference

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

MaterialNepali paper

State incomplete

Size 29.0 x 7.7 cm

Folios 16

Lines per Folio 7

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

King

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 6/2754

Manuscript Features

The available folios are 1, 3, 8, 11–13, 16, 24, 59 and 65–69.

The MS contains the different small portions of the text from different aṅkas of the Nāṭaka.

The text in this MS starts from the beginning of the Nāṭaka and ends on the nearly the end of the seventh (last) act.

Excerpts

Beginning

❖ śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ||

dhanyā keyaṃ sthitā te śirasi śaśikalā kin nu nāmaitadasyāḥ

nāmaivāsyāttadetat paricitam api te vismṛtan tasya hetoḥ |

nārīṃ pṛcchāmi nenduṃ kathayatu vijayā na pramāṇaṃ yadīndur

devyā nihnotum icchor iti surasaritaṃ śāṭhyamavyād vibhor vvaḥ || (fol. 1v1–3)

End

rākṣasaḥ || ātmagataṃ || kathaṃ dāsīkṛtya mām idānīṃ vijñāpanāyāṃ mukharīkaroti kauṭilyaḥ || kā gatiḥ | prakāśaṃ || rājan caṃdragupta viditam eva taṃ yathā vayaṃ malayaketo kiṃcitkālāṃtaramūṣitā iti || tat parirakṣantām asya prāṇāḥ ||

rājā || cāṇakyamukham avalokayati || cāṇakya (fol. 69v5–7)

Colophon

Microfilm Details

Reel No.:A 1376/19

Date of Filming 23-07-1989

Exposures 18

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by RT

Date 13-10-2009

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