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MS. A. Walker 191

MSS. A. Walker

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Physical Description

Form: pothi
Support: paper
Extent: ii + 150 + ii. The three parts which make up the volume have 55 + 8 + 87 (really 85, ff. 44, 45 being lost) leaves.
Dimensions (folio): 22.2 × 16.8 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 191a

Sarasvatīprakriyā, 17th cent.?

Contents

Language(s): Sanskrit

Physical Description

Hand(s)

his name or perhaps an owner’s appears to have been added (possibly by a later, but still old hand) on f. 55v, but the notice has been partially lost: what remains runs: pāṭhakakṛṣṇarāṃmagovaṃdya-rāṃmanu Sārasvatache pāṭhakakṛṣṇarāṃmagovaṃdya-rāṃmaja ---- |

History

Origin: 17th cent.?

Record Sources

Keith, Appendix to Vol. I, no. 384, p. 50

MS. A. Walker 191b

Pavanavijaya, A. D. 1370.

Contents

Language(s): Sanskrit

History

Origin: 1370

f. 64v: saṃvat 1426 ⟨1370⟩ varṣe pauṣavadi 2 (or 1?) śukre Pavanavijayasya pustikā lakhitā |

Record Sources

Keith, Appendix to Vol. I, no. 167, p. 21

MS. A. Walker 191c

Lekhakamuktāmaṇi, A. D. 1625.

Contents

Language(s): Sanskrit

Physical Description

Hand(s)

f. 150v: Rupapuranivāsinā Devajīkena |

History

Origin: 1625

f. 150v: saṃvat 1681 ⟨1625⟩ varṣe jyeṣṭhavadi 4 some likhitaṃ |

Record Sources

Keith, Appendix to Vol. I, no. 799, p. 100

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