MS Chandra Shum Shere b.84

Sanskrit, Chandra Shum Shere Collection

Summary of Contents: A paper manuscript of Gadādhara Bhaṭṭācārya's Gādādharī, a commentary on Raghunātha Śiromaṇi's Tattvacintāmaṇidīdhiti, in its turn a commentary on Gaṅgeśa's Tattvacintāmaṇi. Anumāna, incomplete. Hetvābhāsa; a kroḍapatra; siddhāntalakṣaṇa (breaks off in avacchedakanirukti).

Gadādhara Bhaṭṭācārya , Gādādharī

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

8 × 47 cm.

Extent: 195 ff.

Condition

Incomplete, in good condition. Extant folios: 1-105, (loss of text), 108, (loss of text?), lf. 109, (loss of text ?), 112-134, <135>, (lf. 133), 136-137; (loss of text), 138-190, (loss of text), 192-200. Folio 105v blank, folio 109 torn in the right with loss of text.

Layout

7 lines per page.

Deletions in red.

Central blank with string hole.

Hand(s)

Bengali in black ink.

Additions:

Marginalia

titleAbbreviated marginal titles, right margin, verso: viruddha ga, satpratipakṣa ga ṭī, he bādha ga, si. ga., si ava ga, etc.
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 Revised and Completed by E. H. Johnston [unpublished handlist] T.Gambier Parry; E. H.Johnston Oxford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