MS Chandra Shum Shere c.337
Sanskrit, Chandra Shum Shere Collection
Contents
Sāṅkhyasāra
, Rubric: [3v] jayagaṇeśaḥ ||
Incipit: [3v1] mahadākhyaḥ
Explicit: (section) [4r] cetare khilāḥ || 6 ||
Incipit: (section) [10v] na mokṣo nabhasaḥ
Explicit: [10v] avaśiṣyate || 31 ||
Final rubric: [10v] iti śrīvijñānabhikṣuviracite sāṃkhyasāre jīvanmuktipa(sic)ktyoḥ paricchedaḥ || || iti sāṃkhyasārasyottarabhāgaḥ || ||
Final rubric: [10v] iti vijñānabhikṣuviracitaṃ sāṃkhyasārākhyaṃ prakaraṇaṃ samāptaṃ || || ||
Colophon: [10v] svākṣaram idaṃ śrīrāmamohanadevaśarmaṇāṃ || ||
Language(s): Sanskrit.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Blue European watermarked paper.
33 × 17 cm.
Extent: 7 ff.; folios bound out of order. Folio numbers lost. Should read: lff. 3, 5, 7-9, 6, 4, (loss of text), 10. Lff. 3, 5, 6 and 10 bound verso first.
Condition
Incomplete, in good condition.
Layout
36 lines per page.
Hand(s)
Devanāgarī in black ink. Scribe: Rāmamohanadeva Śarman
Additions: On folio 3r, in a later hand: ‘sāṅkhyasāra’; on folio 3v and folio 10v, in the upper margin, in the same hand: ‘sāṃkhyasāraḥ ||’.
Binding
Cardboard cover, library binding.
History
Origin: 19th century.
Provenance and Acquisition
Donated by Shum Shere, Chandra Mahārāja Chandra Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana in 1909.
Availability
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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 Revised and Completed by E. H. Johnston [unpublished handlist] ; OxfordFunding of Cataloguing
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation