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MS. Wilson 266

MSS. Wilson

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Laghuśāntipurāṇa, Laghulalitavistara, Gurupaṭṭāvalī, 19th cent.?

Contents

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper of European make.
Extent: + +
Dimensions (binding): 31.8 × 24.1 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

History

Origin: 19th cent.?

doubtless the beginning of the 19th or the end of the 18th century.

Provenance and Acquisition

it is clear that these MSS. were written for Colebrooke, who must have given them to H. H. Wilson.

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

MS. Wilson 266(1)

Contents

The Laghuśāntipurāṇa, described in Colebrooke’s handwriting on f. 1v as abridged from the original, the Śantipurāṇa of Aśaga. T

Language(s): Sanskrit

MS. Wilson 266(2) [fols 55v]

Contents

Summary of Contents: The Laghulalitavistara, abridged for Colebrooke by one of his paṇḍits, according to a note on f. 1. It contains a legendary account of Buddha’s life, current among the so-called Northern Buddhists. The work is compressed so as to be merely a table of contents.

Language(s): Sanskrit

MS. Wilson 266(3) [fols 70v]

Contents

The Gurupaṭṭāvalī, a list of the heads of the Tapāgaccha of the Jains.

Language(s): Sanskrit

Incipit: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ | athātra śrīparyūṣaṇāparvaṇi samāgate caturmāsakasthā munayo māṃgalikaṃ paryūṣaṇākalpanāmādhyayanaṃ paṃcadināni vācayaṃti | tadvācanād anu ca sarvaṃ hi kāryaṃ mukhamadhyātakṛtamaṃgalaṃ sat sukhāya bhavati |

Additional Information

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1406 (1–3), pp. 240-241

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. 1406 (1–3), pp. 240-241

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