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MS Chandra Shum Shere c.202(1)

Sanskrit, Chandra Shum Shere Collection

Contents

Summary of Contents: An incomplete paper manuscript of Gadādhara Bhaṭṭācārya's Gādādharī, a commentary on Raghunātha Śiromaṇi's Tattvacintāmaṇidīdhiti, in its turn a commentary on Gaṅgeśa's Tattvacintāmaṇi. Anumāna, sāmānyanirukti incomplete. In the same hand as that of MS Chandra Shum Shere c.202(8).
Gadādhara Bhaṭṭācārya , Gādādharī
Rubric: [1v1] śrīḥ |
Incipit: [1v1] hetvābhāsa
Explicit: [15v] tādṛśānumitiḥ prakṛtasādhya
Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.

12 × 32.5 cm.

Extent: 15 ff.

Condition

Incomplete, in good condition.

Layout

Commentary layout: Mūla and pratīkas smeared in red.

11 lines per page.

Marginal frame lines in red ink.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī in black ink.

Additions: On folio 1, in two later hands, 15 and 2800; in a modern hand (in red ink): gadādharī sāmānya.

Marginalia

  • titleAbbreviated marginal titles: gadādharī° sā°.
  • 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 Revised and Completed by E. H. Johnston [unpublished handlist] T.Gambier Parry; E. H.Johnston Oxford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