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MS Chandra Shum Shere b.83

Sanskrit, Chandra Shum Shere Collection

Contents

Summary of Contents: A paper manuscript of Raghunātha Śiromaṇi's Tattvacintāmaṇidīdhiti, a commentary on Gaṅgeśa's Tattvacintāmaṇi. Anumāna, incomplete.
Raghunātha Śiromaṇi , Tattvacintāmaṇidīdhiti
Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Brown paper.

6 × 37 cm.

Extent: 133 ff.

Condition

Incomplete, in good condition. Extant folios: ff. 1, (lf. 3), 2-26, (loss of text), 28-56, (loss of text), 58-87, (loss of text), 98-145. Left half of f. 1 torn away.

Layout

5 lines per page.

Deletions in yellow.

Central blank with hole for string.

Hand(s)

Bengali in black ink.

Additions: On folio 3, in another hand, in Nāgarī: anuvyākhyā prāraṃbhā ||.

Marginalia

  • correctionsMarginal corrections in the same and another hand.

Binding

Cardboard cover, library binding.

History

Origin: 18th-19th century. Bengal.

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 Revised and Completed by E. H. Johnston [unpublished handlist] T.Gambier Parry; E. H.Johnston Oxford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