MS. Wilson 498

MSS. Wilson

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Naiṣadhīyacarita, A. D. 1734.

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper

Extent: ii + 287 + ii. The original foliation makes 315, but ff. 1–4,15–38 are lost.

Dimensions (binding): 23.5 × 14.3 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī in black ink.

f. 287v: kāvyam ramyam alīlikhad dvijakulālaṃkārakāśīśvaraḥ ǁ 149 ǁ Somanopakanāmnā vai Kāśīnāthena dhīmatā | likhitaṃ Naiṣadhaṃ kāvyaṃ Vighnesasya prasādataḥ ǁ 150 ǁ śubhaṃ svārthaṃ parārthaṃ |

History

Origin: 1734

f. 287v: śrīmadvikramabhūpateḥ śakagaṇe khāṃkāgapṛthvīyute 1790 ⟨1734⟩ jyeṣṭhasyārjunapakṣa viśvasutithau yāte ravau tvaṣṭṛbhe | Not 1736 as in the Bodl. catal.

Provenance and Acquisition

The collection of Horace Hayman Wilson was purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1842.

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:

Keith, Appendix to Vol. I, no. 200, pp. 25-26

Availability

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Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

Arthur Berriedale Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts in the Bodleian Library: Appendix to Vol. I (Oxford, 1909), no. 200, pp. 25-26

Theodor Aufrecht, Codices Sanscriticos complectens, vol. 1. (Oxford, 1864), no. 200, pp. 118-119

Funding of Cataloguing

We Are Our History

A catalogue of South Asian Manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries