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Sanskrit, Monier-Williams Collection

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

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 the warms 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.

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.

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