MS. Wilson 458
MSS. Wilson
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Kundakundācārya’s Pañcāstikāyaprābhṛta, with the Commentary of Brahmadevajī, 18th cent.?
Contents
The Pañcāstikāyaprābhṛta, a treatise on Jaina metaphysics, by Kundakundācārya, with the commentary of Brahmadevajī.
Language(s): Sanskrit.
Incipit: [1v] oṃ namo vītarāgāya | svasaṃvedanasiddhāya | jināya paramātmane | śuddhajīvāstikāyāya | nityānaṃdacite namaḥ ǁ atha śrīkumāranaṃdisaiddhāṃtadevaśiṣyaiḥ prasiddhakathānyāyena pūrvavidehaṃ gatvā vītarāgasarvajñaśrīśīmaṃdharasvāmitīrthaṃkaraparamadevaṃ dṛṣṭvā ca tanmukhakamalanirgatadivyavāṇīśravaṇād avadhāritapadārthasamūhād buddhvātmatatvādisārārthaṃ gṛhītvā punar apy āgataiḥ | śrīmatkuṃdakuṃdācāryadevaiḥ Padmanaṃdyādyaparanāmābḥidhayair atas tatvavahistatvagauṇamukhyapratipatyarthaṃ | athavā Śivakumāramahārājādi-| saṃkṣeparuciśiṣyapra-tibodhanārthaṃ viracite Paṃcāstikāyaprābhṛtaśāstre yathākramaṇādhikāraśuddhipurvakaṃ tātparyārthavyākhyānaṃ kathyate |
Physical Description
Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: ii + 110 + ii. In the original there are 111 ff., but f. 55 is omitted, none of the text being lost.
Dimensions (binding): 27.9 × 15.2 cm.
Hand(s)
Devanāgarī, Jaina style.
History
Origin: 18th cent.?
doubtful, but possibly the middle of the 18th century.
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:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1370, p. 219
Availability
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Bibliography
Printed descriptions:
Moriz Winternitz and Arthur Berriedale Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1905), no. 1370, p. 219
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