MS. Mill 73

MSS. Mill

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Śiśupālavadha, A. D. 1672.

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper

Extent: i + 123 + i

Dimensions (binding): 26.7 × 11.4 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī in black ink.

History

Origin: 1672

f. 123: śubhastu saṃvat 1728 (=A. D. 1672) āṣāḍhasudī trodaśyayaṃ ravivāra śubhaṃ | yat dṛṣṭā likhitaṃ mayā bhramadoṣaṃ kṣama prabho | This is probably the date of the old part or of the exemplar. The new part belongs to the end of the 18th century.

A former owner was Viṣṇubhaṭṭa, ff. 1, 124v: Māghakāvyapustakam idaṃ śrīmadviṣṇubhaṭṭānāṃ | He must have been the owner from whom Mill obtained it.

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of William Hodge Mill were purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1849 and 1858.

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:

Keith, Appendix to Vol. I, no. 193, p. 25

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. 193, p. 25

Theodor Aufrecht, Codices Sanscriticos complectens, vol. 1. (Oxford, 1864), no. 193, pp. 117-118

Funding of Cataloguing

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