MS. Fraser Sansk. 15

MSS. Fraser Sansk.

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Dvārakāmāhātmya, A. D. 1456.

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper

Extent: iii + 96 + iii. The original foliation makes 117, but ff. 1–5, 17–24, 35–41, 43, 68, 71 are missing, and two ff. (numbers obliterated) are double.

Dimensions (binding): × cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī in black ink.

f. 96: mahārājādhirāja (two or threc akṣaras lost) suratāṇakṛtapadīnarājye Rāṇapuradurgavāstavya | bhīnṛvāl (?) otpannaśrīmālajñātīyapaṃcaratnaadhyana (five or six akṣaras lost) nābhirata Śrīvāsudevaguṇagrāmacakravā | upālanī alavāsutakāhnākena likhitaṃ | ātma (rest lost) | The prince is Quṭbu-d-Dīn of Gujarāt.

History

Origin: 1456

f. 96: svasti saṃvat 1513 varṣe śāke 1378 (=A. D. 1456) pravarttamāne dakṣiṇāyane varṣāṛtau śrāvaṇamāse śuklapakṣe paṃcamyāṃ tithau budhadine |

Provenance and Acquisition

The collection of James Fraser was transferred to the Bodleian Library from the Radcliffe Library in May 1872.

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:

Keith, Appendix to Vol. I, no. 815, p. 102

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. 815, p. 102

Theodor Aufrecht, Codices Sanscriticos complectens, vol. 1. (Oxford, 1864), no. 815, p. 350

Funding of Cataloguing

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A catalogue of South Asian Manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries