MS. Chandra Shum Shere c.191(1)
MSS. Chandra Shum Shere c.
Contents
Summary of Contents: A paper manuscript of Bhoja's Rājamārtaṇḍa, a commentary on Patañjali's Yogasūtra. Copied by Sadānanda for his own study at Vārāṇasī on a śivarātri.
, Title: Yogasūtra
Language(s): Sanskrit.
Class: mūla
, Title: Rājamārtaṇḍa
[1v1] oṃ śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ [1v1] dehārdhayogaḥ [40r] vyadhāt [40r] iti śrīdhāreśvaraviracitāyāṃ rājamārtaṇḍābhidhānāyāṃ pātaṃjalayogaśāstravṛttau kaivalyapādaś caturthaḥ samāptaḥ 4 [40r] śiva likhitaṃ sadānande+ svahastena svapaṭhanārthaṃ samāpti jātā śivarātrau śrīkāśīmadhye śivāya namaḥ harāya namaḥ Language(s): Sanskrit.
Class: commentary
Physical Description
Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
13.5 × 35.5 cm.
Extent: 40 ff.
Condition
Complete, damaged; folios 13-39 damaged in the right margin (with loss of text in the marginal notes on f. 16); Folio 40 worm-eaten in lower left margin with loss of several akṣaras.
Layout
Commentary layout: running; mūla cited in full, mūla and keywords smeared in red.
12 lines per page.
Hand(s)
Devanāgarī in black ink. Scribe: Sadānanda
Additions:
On folio 1, in a later hand (in pencil): || atha pātajalayogaśāstra 4 sarga ||; and, in another later hand: dhareśvara° atha pāṃtaṃja(sic)yogaśāstravṛtti saṭippaṇī.
Marginalia
- annotationsNumerous marginal and interlinear explanations including long citations from Bhāvāgaṇeṣa's commentary.
- titleAbbreviated marginal title (bho° vṛ°).
- correctionsCorrections in the same hand up to folio 31v.
Binding
Cardboard cover, library binding.
History
Origin: 19th century. Vārāṇasī.
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 Revised and Completed by E. H. Johnston [unpublished handlist] ; OxfordFunding of Cataloguing
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation