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MSS. A. Walker

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Ratnaśekhara’s Guṇasthānakramārohaṇaprakaraṇa, with a Commentary, A.D. 1706.

Contents

Summary of Contents: The Guṇasthānakramārohaṇaprakaraṇa, a treatise on the fourteen stages of the path to moral virtue, by Ratnaśekharasūri, with the commentary of an anonymous writer, probably Ratnaśekhara himself

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: [157v] arhate namaḥ | arhaṃ padaṃ hṛdi dhyātvā guṇasthānavicāraṇāṃ | anuṣṭubhāṃ iyaṃ vṛttir likhyate hy avacūrṇṇvat ǁ 1 ǁ tatrādau maṃgalḍrtham abhīṣṭadevatānamaskārasya saṃbaṃdhāvirbhāvakaṃ ādyaṃ padyam āha guṇasthāneti |
Explicit: [187] iti śrīguṇasthānavṛttiḥ samāptāḥ |

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: ii + 187 + ii. This part has 31 leaves.
Dimensions (binding): 27.0 × 16.5 cm.

Condition

the top of each page has been injured by damp.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī, Jaina style.

perhaps the text was written by a different hand from the commentary.

History

Origin: A. D. 1706.

f. 187: saṃvat 1762 ⟨1706⟩ varṣe bhādravāsudi ǁ ravivāre saṃpūrṇṇaṃ | kalyāṇam astu |

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. 1377, p. 223

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. 1377, p. 223

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