MS Chandra Shum Shere d.499(6)

Sanskrit, Chandra Shum Shere Collection

Summary of Contents: A paper manuscript of Jayadeva Pakṣadhara Miśra's Tattvacintāmaṇyāloka, a commentary on Gaṅgeśa's Tattvacintāmaṇi. Śabda. Copied by Valabhadra Bhaṭṭa on Thursday 24 December 1550 at Vārāṇasī.

Gaṅgeśa ,

Title: Tattvacintāmaṇi

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Class: mūla

Jayadeva Pakṣadhara Miśra ,

Title: Tattvacintāmaṇyāloka

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Class: commentary

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

9.5 × 27 cm.

Extent: 53 ff.

Condition

Incomplete, paper repaired before copying; extant ff. 25-26, (loss of text), 64-104. Some loss of text in later restoration.

Layout

Commentary layout: running; mūla cited in full and smeared in red.

12 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī in black ink. Scribe: Valabhadra Bhaṭṭa

Additions:

Marginalia

titleAbbreviated marginal title (śa° pa°; pa° etc.).

Binding

Cardboard cover, library binding.

History

Origin: Vikrama Saṃvat 1607 / Thursday 24 December 1550. 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 Revised and Completed by E. H. Johnston [unpublished handlist] T.Gambier Parry; E. H.Johnston Oxford

Funding of Cataloguing

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation