MS. Wilson 419

MSS. Wilson

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Lālakavis Dhātupāṭha, 19th cent.?

Summary of Contents: The Dhātupāṭha, being a collection of Sanskrit roots, arranged according to the last letters, with a version in Hindustānī by Lālakavi.

Language(s): Sanskrit and Hindī.

Incipit: [1] śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ | atha dhātu likhyate | akarāntaḥ | aṅka aṅga aṃśa aṃsa artha | &c.

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: i + 159 + i. In the original ff. 1–148 are foliated as ff. 1–149, f. 95 being counted by an error as ff. 95, 96, and the rest is left unfoliated.

Dimensions (binding): 28.6 × 22.5 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī in black ink.

Lālakavi, the author.

History

Origin: 19th cent.?

beginning of the 19th 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. 1150, p. 137

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. 1150, p. 137

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