MS. A. Walker 183

MSS. A. Walker

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Prabodhacandrodaya, 17th and 18th cent.?

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper

Extent: ii + 102 + ii. By the original hand the first section is foliated 1–32, the second 29–85, the third 1–13.

Dimensions (binding): 31.1 × 16.5 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī in black ink.

Scribe:

(1) f. 89: paṃḍyāº puruṣottamasutakṛṣṇadevena paropakārāthaṃ |

(2) f. 102v: joº Harajidākhyena prākṛtaṃ sasaṃskṛtaṃ likhitaṃ |

History

Origin: 17th and 18th cent.?

Date:

(1) f. 89: saṃvat 1787 varṣe śāke 1652 ⟨1730⟩ pravarttamāne dvitīyabhādrapadamāse kṛṣṇapakṣe 7 (?) amāvāśyā guruvāsare |

(2) f. 102v: saṃvat 1703 varṣe ⟨1647⟩ caitramāse śuklapakṣe tṛtīyāyāṃ tithau | ravidine |

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. 286, p. 37

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. 286, p. 37

Theodor Aufrecht, Codices Sanscriticos complectens, vol. 1. (Oxford, 1864), no. 286, pp. 140-141

Funding of Cataloguing

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A catalogue of South Asian Manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries