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MS. A. Walker 182

MSS. A. Walker

NOTE: This record has yet to be fully checked.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: ii + 217 + ii. This part has 28 leaves = ff. 125–162. Parts 1 and 3 have 122 (really 123, f. 35 repeated) and 54.
Dimensions (binding): 28.9 × 16.2 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

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

MS. A. Walker 182a

Rugviniścaya, A. D. 1670.

Physical Description

Hand(s)

f. 123v: likhito ’yaṃ graṃtha bhaṭalīlāreṇa (naraº is not found) svayaṃ paṭhānārthaḥ vāstavyaṃ Jāvarāgrāme ṭīgalām 47 | māṭe vocātuāpubhakṛṣṇa (illegible and probably some letters lost) gobhāgenāstī saṃvat 1 (lost)

History

Origin: 1670

f. 123v: saṃvat 1726 ⟨1670⟩ varṣe phālugnasudi 5 somavāsare |

Record Sources

Keith, Appendix to Vol. I, no. 747, p. 93

MS. A. Walker 182b [fols. 125r-162v]

Prathamapuruṣākī Maitrāyaṇagṛhyapaddhati, 18th cent.?

Contents

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Maitrāyaṇagṛhyapaddhati, a short treatise on the sixteen saṃskāras, according to the Maitrāyaṇa school, the chapter called Prathamapuruṣa.

Incipit: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ | atha daśakarmaāraṃbha-sarvakarmaāraṃbhe śāṃtikarmavidhir likhyate | atha vedikaraṇaṃ khaṃḍagulonāś catvāraḥ | &c.

History

Origin: 18th cent.?

probably about 1700–1750.

Record Sources

Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1062, p. 97

MS. A. Walker 182c

Raghuvaṃśa, A.D. 1589.

History

Origin: 1589

Record Sources

Keith, Appendix to Vol. I, no. 177, pp. 22-23

Additional Information

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1062, p. 97

Availability

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Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    Arthur Berriedale Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts in the Bodleian Library: Appendix to Vol. I (Oxford, 1909), no. 747, p. 93; no. 177, pp. 22-23
    Theodor Aufrecht, Codices Sanscriticos complectens, vol. 1. (Oxford, 1864), no. 747, p. 317; no. 177, p. 114
    Moriz Winternitz and Arthur Berriedale Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1905), no. 1062, p. 97

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