MS Chandra Shum Shere d.459(5)

Sanskrit, Chandra Shum Shere Collection

Summary of Contents: A paper manuscript of Vijñānabhikṣu's Sāṅkhyasāra.

Vijñānabhikṣu , Sāṅkhyasāra

Incipit: [5r] buddhisākṣī

Explicit: [14v] vedyaṃ jatadaṃ[sic]

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

11 × 23.5 cm.

Extent: 10 ff.

Condition

Incomplete, in good condition.

Layout

11 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī in black ink.

Additions: On folio 5r, in the upper margin, in a modern hand: ‘khaṃ°’, (in red ink) ‘sāṃkhyasāra’.

Marginalia

correctionsRare marginal corrections in the same hand.

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 Revised and Completed by E. H. Johnston [unpublished handlist] T.Gambier Parry; E. H.Johnston Oxford

Funding of Cataloguing

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation