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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