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MS Chandra Shum Shere d.555(8)

Sanskrit, Chandra Shum Shere Collection

Contents

Summary of Contents: A paper manuscript of Kṛṣṇabrahmānanda's Samādhidīpikā.
Kṛṣṇabrahmānanda , Samādhidīpikā
Rubric: [1v1] śrīrāya namaḥ
Incipit: [1v1] śrīkṛṣṇaṃ śrīgurūn natvā viśveśaṃ tatprasādataḥ samādhidīpikā ceyaṃ yathāmati nirūpyate iha khalu saṃdhiṃ samādhāv ātmany ācared asyārthaḥ ||
Explicit: (section) [29v] tebhyo gurubhyo yair ayaṃ arthaḥ prāvodhataḥ para+...+
Incipit: (section) [164r1] mānasaiḥ kāmādeś cittavāraṇaḥ || ātmeti vaṃdhana+...+dhidīpikānāmabhītahetvaṃkuśaṃ vinā | viṣayāraṇyasaṃcārī
Explicit: [164r] +...+ ādiśruter bhagavatpreritatvavedata+ +...+ddhānaṃdavāṃchayā || si++...+
Final rubric: [164v] +...+śrībālagopālakṛṣṇaśiṣya+...+
Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.

10.5 × 25.5 cm.

Extent: 30 ff.

Condition

Incomplete, in good condition; extant folios: 1-29 + extra folio. Some folios damaged in the corners with loss of akṣaras; some folios greatly damaged with important loss of text. Several pages illegible due to ink blotting from opposite folios.

Layout

9 lines per page.

Keywords smeared in red on folios 1-3.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī in black ink.

Additions: On folio 135, 14 lines from the Haṭhapradīpikā: tatra vṛttīnddhīvodho … kāyakleśādikaṃ tathā || iti yogaśāstre ||; on folio 164v, in a later hand: vedāṃtasamādhī[sic]dīpikā.

Marginalia

  • correctionsMarginal corrections, sometimes lengthy, in the same hand.

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 Revised and Completed by E. H. Johnston [unpublished handlist] T.Gambier Parry; E. H.Johnston Oxford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