MS Chandra Shum Shere b.85(3)

Sanskrit, Chandra Shum Shere Collection

Summary of Contents: A paper manuscript of a work called Vādārtha, a miscellany of passages from commentaries and subcommentaries on Gaṅgeśa's Tattvacintāmaṇi, including Raghunātha Śiromaṇi's Tattvacintāmaṇidīdhiti as well as Gadādhara Bhaṭṭācārya's Gādādharī and Jagadīśa Tarkālaṃkāra's Jāgadīśī. Anumāna, incomplete.

Gaṅgeśa ,

Title: Tattvacintāmaṇi

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Class: mūla

Raghunātha Śiromaṇi ,

Title: Tattvacintāmaṇidīdhiti

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Class: commentary

Gadādhara Bhaṭṭācārya ,

Title: Gādādharī

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Class: subcommentary

Jagadīśa Tarkālaṃkāra ,

Title: Jāgadīśī

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Class: subcommentary

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

8.5 × 39.5 cm.

Extent: 7 ff.

Condition

Incomplete, in good condition. Extant folios: 19-25.

Layout

9 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Bengali in black ink.

Additions:

Marginalia

titleAbbreviated marginal title, right margin, verso: vyadhi jā vā, vyadhi jā ṭī vādārthaḥ, vyadhi jā vādā.
correctionsMarginal corrections in the same 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 Revised and Completed by E. H. Johnston [unpublished handlist] T.Gambier Parry; E. H.Johnston Oxford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