MS. A. Walker 144
MSS. A. Walker
NOTE: This record has yet to be fully checked.
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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