MS. Sansk. a. 9 (R)
MSS. Sansk. a.
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Candrakīrti’s Madhyamakavṛtti, 14th cent.?
Contents
Summary of Contents: The Madhyamakavṛtti or Vinayasūtra of Candrakīrti, being a treatise on Metaphysica according to the Nihilistic system of Buddhism
Language(s): Sanskrit.
Physical Description
Form: pothī
Support: Palm-leaves, held together by two pieces of cardboard and a string passing through two holes at the sides.
Extent: 80 remain out of probably 115
Dimensions (leaf): 55.9 × 4.8 cm.
Condition
The end (perhaps two or three ff.) is lost, and also ff. 1, 27–31, 33, one between 44 and 49, 52, 64–82, 87, 92–93, 96, 108, 109, 112. The rest is miserably mutilated.
Hand(s)
Nepalese.
History
Origin: 14th cent.?
Dr. Hoernle assigns the MS. to the first half of the 14th cent. Perhaps it belongs rather to the end, cf. the numerals with those of the MSS. of a. d. 1360, 1385, in Bendall’s Buddh. Sansk. MSS., plate V. The numerals for 80, 90, 100, agree most closely with those of no. 1693, ibid.
Record Sources
Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1440, p. 254
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. 1440, p. 254
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