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MS. A. Walker 168

MSS. A. Walker

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Śākuna, 17th cent.?

Contents

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: ii + 184 + ii.
Dimensions (binding): 28.9 × 16.5 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī, Jaina style.

History

Origin: 17th cent.?

probably the earlier part of the 17th cent.

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Alexander Walker was presented to the Bodleian Library by his son, William Walker, in 1845.

MS. A. Walker 168(1)

Contents

Selections from the Jayacaryā of Narapati (composed in a. d. 1176 at Aṇahilapaṭṭana)

Language(s): Sanskrit

Incipit: kṣetraḥ balipadaṃ vṛkṣaṃ maṃḍalaṃ śrutidaivataṃ | ādeśakaṃ ca jalpanti ṣaṭvidhaṃ śukanaṃ hudhāḥ ǁ 1 ǁ
Explicit: iti śrīnarapatijayacāryāyāṃ śivārutaprakaraṇaṃ samāptaṃ |

MS. A. Walker 168(2) [fols 136-149v]

Contents

Nine chapters of the Śākunasāroddhāra of Māṇikyasūri.

Language(s): Sanskrit

Incipit: upāsmahe parī jotitāṃbhayaravigrahaṃ yad udyotata bharavigrahaṃ yad udyotā jagat kṛtsnaṃ pratyakṣam iva vīkṣate ǁ 1 ǁ

MS. A. Walker 168(3)

Contents

Summary of Contents: The Bālāvabodha, in eleven sections, being a summary of the eighteenth chapter of the Śākuna or Śakunārṇava of Vasantarāja, which treats of the omens derived from the movements of dogs, their barking, &c.

Language(s): Sanskrit

Additional Information

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1596 (1–8), p. 314

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. 1596 (1–8), p. 314

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