MS. A. Walker 204

MSS. A. Walker

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Śiva Purāṇa, A.D. 1770.

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper

Extent: ii + 177 + ii

Dimensions (binding): 27.6 × 16.8 cm.

Hand(s)

Jainanāgarī

f. 177: paṭhanārthaṃ Vyāsaśrī 5 tulasīsutabhūdeva likhāvitaṃ | In the Bodl. catal. this is taken to give the scribe’s name, but properly it should be his patron’s. Still the writing is just the same as in those places where he is said to have written himself, and likhāvitam probably means no more than likhitaṃ.

History

Origin: A.D. 1770

f. 177: saṃvat 1826 ⟨1770⟩ nā varṣe poṣamāse (corrected from māgaº) śuklapakṣe 9 śanau |

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Alexander Walker was presented to the Bodleian Library by his son, William Walker, in 1845.

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:

Keith, Appendix to Vol. I, no. 113, p. 15

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. 113, p. 15

Theodor Aufrecht, Codices Sanscriticos complectens, vol. 1. (Oxford, 1864), no. 113, pp. 63-64

Funding of Cataloguing

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A catalogue of South Asian Manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries