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MS. A. Walker 210

MSS. A. Walker

NOTE: This record has yet to be fully checked.

Physical Description

Form: pothi
Support: paper
Extent: ii + 171 + ii. The three parts have 68 + 25 + 78 leaves. The original foliation of parts 2 and 3 is hopelessly confused.
Dimensions (folio): 26.4 × 15.6 cm.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

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

MS. A. Walker 210a

Naiṣadhīyacarita, 17th and 18th cent.?

Contents

Language(s): Sanskrit

Physical Description

Hand(s)

there is a note on f. 78v which applies only to the third hand: Aṃganābhidhapure nivasan śrīgauḍajātir abhivaṃdya maheśaṃ | cha | Durlabhaḥ kavipadāṃbujapāṃśur Naiṣadhīyam alikha chubhasargaṃ ǁ

History

Origin: 17th and 18th cent.?

Record Sources

Keith, Appendix to Vol. I, no. 203, p. 26

MS. A. Walker 210b

Muhūrtamārtaṇda, 18th cent.?

Contents

Language(s): Sanskrit

History

Origin: 18th cent.?

Record Sources

Keith, Appendix to Vol. I, no. 787, p. 98

MS. A. Walker 210c

Mallinātha on the Raghuvaṃsa, A. D. 1622.

Contents

Language(s): Sanskrit

History

Origin: 1622

on f. 171v given the date of ff. 164v–171v: saṃvat 1678 ⟨1622⟩ varṣe āsādha (māse kṛṣṇapakṣe 2 some adyeha: these words and all that follow have been damaged by the tearing of the foot of the page. The restoration here proposed is only probable) |

Record Sources

Keith, Appendix to Vol. I, no. 183, p. 23

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