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MS. Chandra Shum Shere g. 26

MSS. Chandra Shum Shere g.

Contents

Summary of Contents: A paper manuscript of the Pañcaratnagītā of the Bhagavadgītā, written in Śāradā script. The last section of the manuscript contains two further texts, the Gopālakavaca and theṣ Kuṣmāṇḍamantra.
1. Ff. 3v-101v [in library foliation]
Pañcaratnagītā
Incipit: F. 3r [library foliation] saror asya bahu vakṣisasā kulasā [...+...] dadbhyaṃ kṣitīyaṇuva sāgaraḥ [...+...] syadvaṃ hi grāho bhaviṣyasi [...+...] viṣyati na saṃśayaḥ || tadaiva ca ⟨...+...⟩ na saṃśayaḥ || tato nārāyaṇaḥ pra [...+...]
Colophon: F. 101v [library foliation]: iti śrīmahābhārate || śatasahasryāṃ saṃhit[āyāṃ] || bhīśmaparvaṇi || śrībhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsu || brahmavidyāyāṃ || yo[gaśāstre] śrīkṛṣṇārhunasaṃvāde || [....] yogo nāmāṣṭadaśo dhyāyaḥ || iti bhagavadgītās saṃpūrṇās samāptāḥ ||
Language(s): Sanskrit.
2. Ff. 102r-105v [in library foliation]
Gopālakavaca
Language(s): Sanskrit.
3. Ff. 106r-110v [in library foliation]
Kuṣmāṇḍamantra
Colophon: F. 110v [f. 330v in original foliation] ṛjanaḥ pavitreṇa vicarṣaṇiḥ || yaḥ potā sā pu
Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper. Some leaves are brown, reddish, or purplish in colour.

11 × 12 cm.

Extent: 110 ff.
Foliation: Śāradā numerals, bottom-left margin, verso. Often missing or unreadable.
Foliation: Arabic numerals in pencil, bottom-right corner, recto (added by Gambier-Parry, Thomas Thomas Gambier-Parry).

Condition

Incomplete.

Half the leaf is torn off the right of the first 11 leaves [ff. 3-13 in library foliation]. The bottom right corner is torn off on the next 27 leaves [ff. 14-40 in library foliation]. First and last leaves are rubbed with some akṣaras being left unreadable.

Layout

Text emboxed in lines drawn in yellow, red, and black. Dimensions of the frame: 6 × 7.5 cm.

Hand(s)

Śāradā in black ink. Daṇḍas in red, but in white or brown on reddish leaves.

Decoration

Illustrated with various miniatures within the text on several folia:

Lotus on ff. 13r, 14r, 14v, 29r, and 90r;

Kṛṣṇa on ff. 29v, 46v, 52r, 57v,63r, 67r, 70v, 80r, 87v, 93r, 94v, and 105r;

and other anthropomorphic scenes on ff. 74r and 102r.

Binding

Early 20th-century brown textile binding over pasteboard, with shelfmark and description tooled in gold on the spine. Cardboard cover box.

History

Origin: Not dated.

Provenance and Acquisition

Donated by Shum Shere, Chandra Mahārāja Chandra Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana in 1909.

Record Sources

Description by Barbora Sojkova, based on observation of the manuscript and existing descriptions.

Availability

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card, for admissions procedures contact Bodleian Libraries' Admissions Office.

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Bibliography

    Descriptions of the manuscripts

    Part II: Epics and Purāṇas. A descriptive catalogue of the Sanskrit and other Indian manuscripts of the Chandra Shum Shere collection in the Bodleian Library, Brockington, J. (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999, no. 55, p. 20.)

Funding of Cataloguing

The cataloguing of this item was made possible through a benefaction from the late John P. Clay, founder and benefactor of the Clay Sanskrit Library.