MS.Ind.Inst.Sansk.46

Sanskrit, Monier-Williams Collection

Summary of Contents: A 17th-century paper manuscript of the Uttarajjhayaṇasutta Uttarādhyayanasūtra, a part of the Jaina canon, with a commentary (kathā) in Sanskrit. The first mūlasūtra is with Sanskrit kathās to illustrate the text and from ff. 10-119 with glosses in bhāṣā.

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Title: Uttarajjhayaṇasutta

Title: Uttarādhyayanasūtra

Language(s): Ardhamāgadhī.

Class: mūla

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Title: Uttarādhyayanasūtrabālāvabodha

Language(s): Gujarati.

Class: commentary

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

12.0 × 24.5 cm.

Extent: 166 ff.

Condition

Incomplete, in good condition.

Layout

Commentary layout: running.

8 lines per page, approximately 45-47 akṣaras per line.

Double marginal frame lines in red ink.

Hand(s)

Jainanāgarī in black ink.

Additions:

Marginalia

titlesRunning marginal title, (uttarādhyāya), top-left margin, verso.
invocationsInvocation (jinaḥ, lower right margin, verso.

Binding

Cardboard cover, library binding.

History

Origin: 17th century.

Provenance and Acquisition

Collected by Bühler, Georg Georg Bühler in 1878.

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. 48, p. 24-25)

Funding of Cataloguing

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation