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MS. A. Walker 135

MSS. A. Walker

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Harirāya’s Jīcaraṇacihnamāhātmya, 18th cent.?

Contents

Part I is the Jīcaraṇacihnamāhātmya, a treatise on the adoration of the marks on Kṛṣṇa’s feet, by Harirāya

Language(s): Sanskrit and Hindī

Incipit: [1v] śrīgurubhyo namaḥ | śrīnāthajīsatyacheṃ | śrījīnāṃ padacihnaṃ māhātmya likhyate |
Explicit: [10] iti śrtjīcarṇṇacihnamāhātmyaṃ | cha | śrīr astu |

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: ii + 166 + ii. This part has ten leaves.
Dimensions (binding): 27.6 × 18.7 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

f.10: likhitaṃ bhaṭahariśaṃkareṇa |

History

Origin: 18th cent.?

probably a. d. 1760–1800.

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. 1388, pp. 228-229

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. 1388, pp. 228-229

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