MS Chandra Shum Shere d.486(5)

Sanskrit, Chandra Shum Shere Collection

Summary of Contents: An incomplete paper manuscript of Dinakara's Dinakārī, a commentary on Viśvanātha Nyāyasiddhānta Pañcānana's Bhāṣāpariccheda.

Dinakara , Dinakārī

Rubric: [1v1] śrīmahāgaṇapataye namaḥ

Incipit: [1v1] lakṣmīpāda

Explicit: [21v] golakam eva ca

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

11 × 24.5 cm.

Extent: 21 ff.

Condition

Incomplete, in good condition.

Layout

Commentary layout: pratīka.

16-24 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī in black ink.

Additions: On folio 1r, in a modern hand: siddhāṃtamuktālī[sic] ṭī° gūḍhārtha 20.

Binding

Cardboard cover, library binding.

History

Origin: 18th-19th century.

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 Revised and Completed by E. H. Johnston [unpublished handlist] T.Gambier Parry; E. H.Johnston Oxford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