MS. Wilson 269
MSS. Wilson
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Amṛtacandrasūri’s Puruṣārthasiddhyupāya, with a Commentary in Bhāṣā, A. D. 1822.
Contents
The Puruṣārthasiddhyupāya of Amṛtacandrasūri, a manual of Jaina devotion, with a commentary in Hindī
Language(s): Sanskrit and Hindī.
Incipit: [1v] śrījināya namaḥ | oṃ nama siddhebhyaḥ | atha Puruṣārthasiddhopāyabhāṣāṭīkī liṣyate |
Physical Description
Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: ii + 110 + ii. In the original there are 111 leaves, but f. 51 is omitted, though there does not appear to be anything lost there.
Dimensions (binding): 34.3 × 16.8 cm.
Hand(s)
Devanāgarī, with some Jaina characteristics.
probably by the same hand as MS. Wilson 270 (1375).
History
Origin: A. D. 1822.
f. 110v: saṃvat 1878 ⟨1822⟩ asāḍhamāse kraṣṇapakṣe tithau 9 sanivāsare śrīr astu śubham astu |
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. 1379, p. 224
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. 1379, p. 224
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