MS Chandra Shum Shere d.499(5)

Sanskrit, Chandra Shum Shere Collection

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: Paper; several folios yellowed.

10 × 28 cm.

Extent: 84 ff.

Condition

Incomplete, in good condition. Extant folios: 9, (loss of text), 11, (loss of text), 17-19, (loss of text), 21-45, (loss of text), 47-60, (loss of text), 63-71, (loss of text), 78-87, (loss of text), 101-121.

Layout

Commentary layout: pratīkas, key words smeared in red.

8 lines per page.

Deletions in yellow.

Central blank with hole for string.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī in black ink.

Additions: On folio 9, in a modern hand (in red ink): śiromaṇi 9-121.

Marginalia

titleAbbreviated marginal title: śiro°, śi° a°.

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 Revised and Completed by E. H. Johnston [unpublished handlist] T.Gambier Parry; E. H.Johnston Oxford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