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Ms. Ind. Inst. Sansk. 30

MSS. Ind. Inst. Sansk.

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Summary of Contents: A 17th-century paper manuscript of the Antarakathāsaṃgraha, a collection of moral tales by Rājaśekhara of Maladhāra Gaccha. This work is a collection of moral stories in prose. It is also called Vinodakathāsaṃgraha.
Rājaśekhara , Antarakathāsaṅgraha
Incipit: [1r1] yan naikām api kāminīṃ pariṇayasy abhyarthamāno'py alaṃ tan nūnaṃ gṛha-bhāra kātara-tayā mukto-dhyamo-devara mā tsakasva haris trikhaṇḍa vijayī bhrātā sti te sarvado bhāmādyābhir iti ritaḥ smita-mukho Nemir vaśī pātu vaḥ || 1 || jayanti guravo-smākaṃ vadyā-valli-mahīruhāṃ Maladhāri-Gaṇādhīśā śrīTilakasūrayaḥ || 2 || mano-vinoda-hetūnāṃ sabhārhāṇāṃ yathā -śrutaṃ mayā kathānāṃ hṛsvānāṃ kriyate saṅgraho budhāḥ || 3 || tan nāsti kiñcij jagati yad vācyaṃ na yathāsabhaṃ ato Vinoda-kathikā saṅgraho'yaṃ na niṣphalaḥ || 4 ||
Explicit: [36r?] pariṣadi rasa śriyāyāṃ rasāvatāraurthamantara kathodhyaṃ Mali(a)dhāra gacchanāthaḥ sūriḥ śrīRājaśekharaḥ kṛtavān || 1 || dvipūrvārdha gītiḥ ṣaṣṭir mātrā vyākhyā su munīndrāṇāṃ cātur vidyā'vatā-rasa'rāsu pūjā suvrṇṇa puṣpa-straja iva phalinī bhavaṃ tvetāḥ || 2 || sumaṅgalaṃ na varaṃ kevalaṃ etā iti Antarakathā prakramāyā tta--svān
Final rubric: [36v?] Antarakathā-saṅgraho'ayaṃ nāma granthaḥ || cha || śubhaṃ bhūyāt || cha ||
Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.

10.5 × 29.5 cm.

Extent: 36 ff.

Condition

Folio 36 is torn by edges but text is not damaged. From folio 20 - 31 at right part of folio is eaten by worms and slightly torn but text is not damaged.

Layout

15 lines per page, approximately 60-65 akṣaras per line.

Double marginal frame lines in black ink. Red pigment is used for titles and sub-titles.

A blank space is left in the center of the folio.

Hand(s)

Jainanāgarī in black ink (main text).

Jainanāgarī in black ink (corrections).

Additions:

Marginalia

  • correctionsOften corrections by other hand.

Binding

Cardboard box, library binding.

History

Origin: 17th century.

Provenance and Acquisition

Collected by Bühler, Georg Georg Bühler in 1877-78.

Donated to the Indian Institute by Monier-Williams, Monier M. Monier-Williams.

Record Sources

Description created by Camillo Formigatti and revised by Barbora Sojkova, based on observation of the manuscript.

Availability

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Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Bibliography

    Descriptions of the manuscript

    A Catalogue of the Sanskrit and Prākrit mss. in the Indian Institute Library, Oxford, Keith, Arthur Berriedale (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1903, no. 62, p. 31)

Funding of Cataloguing

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation