MS. Wilson 391

MSS. Wilson

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Jonarāja’s continuation of the Rājataraṅgiṇī, A. D. 1822.

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper

Extent: ii + 139 + ii. Arranged like a European book.

Dimensions (binding): 29.5 × 20.0 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī in black ink.

f. 139v: likhitā Sadāsukhakenemdraprasthe | Also in verse: oṃ Sadāsukhena Miśreṇālekhi Rājataraṃgiṇī | Indraprasthe nivasatā pharījanahitāya vai ǁ

History

Origin: 1822

f. 139v: saṃvat 1878 ⟨1822⟩ caitraśuklacaturdaśyāṃ somavāsare | It is also given in verse: Vikramārkād gate kāle vasusaptāṣṭacaṃdrake | caitrārjunacaturdasyām vāre kaumudabāṃdhave ǁ

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. 315, p. 41

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. 315, p. 41

Theodor Aufrecht, Codices Sanscriticos complectens, vol. 1. (Oxford, 1864), no. 315, p. 147

Funding of Cataloguing

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A catalogue of South Asian Manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries