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MS. A. Walker 144

MSS. A. Walker

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Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: ii + 218 + ii. The two parts have 99 and 116 leaves. There are really only 217 leaves now, as f. 186 has been passed over.
Dimensions (binding): 28.9 × 17.5 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

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 144a

Dvārakāmāhātmya, A. D. 1770

History

Origin: 1770

f. 99v: savat 1826 varṣe śake 1692 ⟨1770⟩ pravarttamānye śrāvaṇamāse kṛṣṇapakṣe navamī budhavāsare pustaka samāptaḥ | Humānajīsatyachaḥ |

Record Sources

Keith, Appendix to Vol. I, no. 124, p. 16

MS. A. Walker 144b

Mantrasaṃhitā, 18th cent.?

Contents

The Mantrasaṃhitā, being a collection of the mantras, of which the pratīkas are cited in the Gṛhya Sūtra of Āśvalāyana

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: [102v] śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ | śrīsarasvatyai namaḥ | śrīgurubhyo namaḥ | Hariḥ oṃ | ud u tyaṃ jātavedasaṃ devaṃ vahanti ketavaḥ | dṛśe viśvāya sūryaṃ ǁ
Explicit: [218] ity Āśvalāyanaśākhoktamaṃtrasaṃhitā samāptā | śubhaṃ bhavatu | śrīr astu | śrīḥ | chaḥ | śrīḥ |

History

Origin: 18th cent.?

probably about 1750–1800.

Record Sources

Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1048, pp. 92-93

Additional Information

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1048, pp. 92-93
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1048, pp. 92-93

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. 124, p. 16
    Theodor Aufrecht, Codices Sanscriticos complectens, vol. 1. (Oxford, 1864), no. 124, pp. 72-73
    Moriz Winternitz and Arthur Berriedale Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1905), no. 1048, pp. 92-93

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