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MS Chandra Shum Shere d.460

Sanskrit, Chandra Shum Shere Collection

Contents

Summary of Contents: A paper manuscript of Mahādeva Vedāntin's Sāṅkhyasūtravṛttisāra on the Sāṅkhyasūtras.
Kapila ,
Title: Sāṅkhyasūtra
Language(s): Sanskrit.
Class: mūla
Mahādeva Vedāntin ,
Title: Sāṅkhyasūtravṛttisāra
[1v1] oṃ śrīganeśāya namaḥ || oṃ namaḥ saccidānaṃdarūpiṇe || [1v1] dṛṣṭvā [71v] samāptyarthā [70v] iti vedāṃtimahādevakṛte sāṃkhyapravacanasūtravṛttisāre taṃtrādhyāyaḥ ṣaṣṭhaḥ sūtrasaṃkhyā° 521 || aṣṭau prakṛtayaḥ 1 [...] trividhaṃ pramāṇam 22 iti sāṃkhyaprameyāḥ || [ =Tattvasamāsasūtras, pp. 117-118] [70v] saṃvat || āśvina+ caturthī bhaumavāsare. likhitvāpūrya yaṃ graṃthaḥ || || ||
Language(s): Sanskrit
Class: commentary

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.

13.5 × 27.5 cm.

Extent: 70 ff.

Condition

Complete, in good condition. Lff. 3-73. Ff. 1-29, [30-70] (lff. 32-72), 71 (lf. 73). Lff. 31-73 also numbered 2-44.

Layout

Commentary layout: running.

13 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī in black ink.

Additions: On folio 1, in a modern hand (in red ink): ‘vedāṃtimahādevakṛ° sāṃkhyapravacanavṛtisāra 71’.

Marginalia

  • titlesAbbreviated marginal title (sā° vṛ°).

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 Revised and Completed by E. H. Johnston [unpublished handlist] T.Gambier Parry; E. H.Johnston Oxford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