MS. Fraser Sansk. 20

MSS. Fraser Sansk.

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Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā, A. D. 1529.

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper

Extent: ii + 151 + ii. In the original foliation there were 155 leaves, but ff. 146–149 are lost.

Dimensions (binding): 29.2 × 15.6 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī in black ink.

(2) f. 151v: Khaṃbhātivāstavyaudīcyajñātīyatrº lauhāsutasyādhyayanāya likhitaṃ | Cf. 851, 852, which both seem to have been written by the same hand as this.

History

Origin: 1529

Date:

(1) f. 116v: saṃvat 1585 ⟨1529⟩ varṣe bhādrapadaśuddha 10 tithau bhaumadine |

(2) f. 151v: saṃvat 1585 varṣe bhādrapadavadi 10 bhaume |

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. 848, p. 107

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. 848, p. 107

Theodor Aufrecht, Codices Sanscriticos complectens, vol. 1. (Oxford, 1864), no. 848, p. 359

Funding of Cataloguing

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