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MS. A. Walker 154

MSS. A. Walker

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Viṣṇuśarman’s Pañcatantra, 19th cent.?

Contents

The Pañcatantra, ascribed to Viṣṇuśarman, rendered into Marāṭhī couplets

Language(s): Sanskrit and Marāṭhī.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: ii + 227 + ii. In the original each book has a separate foliation, 78 + 19 + 46 + 45 + 39 leaves.
Dimensions (binding): 27.0 × 17.8 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

History

Origin: 19th cent.?

probably beginning of the 19th century.

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:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1272, p. 183

Availability

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Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    Moriz Winternitz and Arthur Berriedale Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1905), no. 1272, p. 183

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