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MS. A. Walker 208

MSS. A. Walker

NOTE: This record has yet to be fully checked.

Physical Description

Form: pothi
Support: paper
Extent: ii + 139 + ii. The five parts in the original foliation have 58 (57, as f. 2 is lost) + 7 + 24 + 12 + 35 leaves.
Dimensions (folio): 27.3 × 15.2 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 208a

Damayantīkathā, 15th cent.?

Contents

Language(s): Sanskrit

Physical Description

Hand(s)

f. 57v: Tapāpakṣe śrisomasuṃdaraśiṣyamukhyapaṃḍitasirovataṃsapūjyārādhyapaṃ o (4 akṣaras deleted by a later hand) gaṇiśiṣyeṇa (4 akṣaras deleted) munikṛte likhito ‘yaṃ graṃthaḥ śrimati Ahammadāvādanagare | As Somasundara was sūri in A. D. 1400, a śiṣya of his śiṣya would have lived about A. D. 1450 at latest.

History

Origin: 15th cent.?

either not given or lost, but certainly as old as the 16th, and probably the 15th century.

Record Sources

Keith, Appendix to Vol. I, no. 209, p. 27

MS. A. Walker 208b

Candrārkī, 18th cent.?

Contents

Language(s): Sanskrit

History

Origin: 18th cent.?

Record Sources

Keith, Appendix to Vol. I, no. 775, p. 97

MS. A. Walker 208c

Jñāpakasamuccaya, 17th cent.?

Contents

Language(s): Sanskrit

History

Origin: 17th cent.?

Record Sources

Keith, Appendix to Vol. I, no. 353, p. 45

MS. A. Walker 208d

Harilīlāviveka, A. D. 1766.

Contents

Language(s): Sanskrit

History

Origin: 1766

f. 139: saṃvata 1822 ⟨1766⟩ varṣa pradviya – – – – | Apparently the date of the exemplar.

Record Sources

Keith, Appendix to Vol. I, no. 92, p. 12

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