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MS. Chandra Shum Shere d. 247

Sanskrit, Chandra Shum Shere Collection

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Summary of Contents: A paper manuscript in Telugu script in the Chandra Shum Shere collection at the Bodleian Libraries. It was bought, as part of a private collection of 6330 manuscripts in Benares, by the Maharaja Sir Chandra Shum Shere and presented to the University of Oxford in 1909. The text extends from the beginning of the Jātisamuddeśa to the end of the Kriyāsamuddeśa, although folios 109, 110 and 111 are missing. The manuscript has never been used for an edition and it was not known to Wilhelm Rau, but it is described in Dominik Wujastyk's Handlist of the Vyākaraṇa manuscripts in the Chandra Shum Shere Collection preserved in the Bodleian Library. The manuscript was bound into book form in the library, and the folios were numbered by Thomas Gambier-Parry in pencil (Wujastyk 1978, 2).
Bhartṛhari ,
Title: Vākyapadīya
[1r1] śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ | śrīpataṃjalaye namaḥ | niraṃtarāyo stu |
Language(s): Sanskrit.
Class: mūla
Helārāja ,
Title: Prakīrṇaprakāśa
[1r1] yasmin_ saṃmukhatāṃ prayāti ruciraṃ ko
[1r2]py aṃtarujjṛṃbhate nedīyān mahimā manasy abhinavaḥ puṃsaḥ prakāśātmanaḥ | [128v21] sāmānyaviśeṣayor atyaṃtabhedābhāvāt_ sakalaviśeṣaparihāreṇa sāmānyarūpānupapatter i
[128v22]ti sarvatra siddhiḥ || [128v22] ❀ || iti śrībhūtirājatanayahelārājakṛte prakīrṇaprakāśe kriyāsamuddeśo ṣṭamaḥ || ❀ ||^^^❀ || ||
Language(s): Sanskrit.
Class: commentary

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.

10 × 24 cm.

Extent: 125 ff.
Foliation: Telugu numerals, top-left and bottom-right margin, verso.
Foliation: Devanāgarī numerals, bottom-right margin, verso (f. 1v–11v only).
Foliation: Arabic numerals in pencil, bottom-right corner, recto (added by Gambier-Parry, Thomas Thomas Gambier-Parry); this foliation starts with the first flyleaf).

Condition

Incomplete (ff. 109–111 missing); in good condition.

Layout

Running commentary.

22 lines per page.

Left and right margins framed by double black lines.

Hand(s)

Telugu script in black ink.

Additions:

On the flyleaf opposite the first folio, the invocation has been transcribed in Latin script.

On the recto side of the last folio, the final section rubric has been transcribed in Devanāgarī script.

On the verso side of the last folio, the title has been written in Devanāgarī script. In addition, the original manuscript number, 3800 has been written in blue ink.

Marginal title, helārājīyaṃ prakīrṇakāṃḍasya, top-left corner, verso, first folio.

Marginalia

  • titleRunning marginal titles: he॰ prakī॰, top-left corner, verso (folios 2 - 9); || rāma ||, bottom-right corner, verso (first 9 folios only).

Binding

Hardcover leather book, library binding.

The spine reads, Helarāja's Vākyapadīprakīrṇakaprakāśa. It also provides the shelfmark, MS. Chandra Shum Shere d.247. The inside front cover provides the shelfmark and the original number.

History

Origin: 19th century. Benares.

Provenance and Acquisition

Donated by Shum Shere, Chandra Mahārāja Chandra Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana in 1909.

Availability

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card, for admissions procedures contact Bodleian Libraries' Admissions Office.

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Bibliography

    Descriptions of the manuscript

    manuscripthttp://zotero.org/users/5493666/items/KU4TYAUH Index Catalogue of MSS. Chandra Shum Shere by T. Gambier Parry. Revised and Completed by E. H. Johnston [unpublished handlist] T.Gambier Parry; E. H.Johnston Oxford

Funding of Cataloguing

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation