MS. A. Walker 125
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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