MS. Sansk. b. 29
MSS. Sansk. b.
NOTE: This record has yet to be fully checked.
Kātantra with Durgasiṃha’s Commentary, &c., 16th or 17th cent.?
Contents
Language(s): Sanskrit.
Physical Description
Form: pothī
Support: Paper, imitating palm-leaves in shape and colour, with central hole like the Bengālī palm-leaf MSS., the leaves being held together by two boards.
Extent: 148
Dimensions (leaf): 44.5 × 8.9 cm.
Hand(s)
Bengālī.
His patron was Rāmakiśoraśarman; see f. 132: oṃ śrīgurave namaḥ | śrīrāmakiśortiśarmmaṇaḥ pustakam idaṃ.
History
Origin: 16th or 17th cent.?
The MS. appears to be very old, and it is more likely to belong to the 16th than to the 17th century.
Provenance and Acquisition
Bought in 1880 from Quaritch.
MS. Sansk. b. 29(1) [fols 1-132]
Contents
the Kātantra, with the commentary of Durgasiṃha, the fourth part, treating of the Kṛt suffixes.
Language(s): Sanskrit
Incipit: oṃ namas tāriṇyai ǁ vṛkṣādivad amī rūḍhāḥ kṛtinā na kṛtāḥ kṛtaḥ | Kātyāyanena te sṛṣṭā vivuddhiprativuddhaye ǁ siddhir ijvad nṇānuvandhe ǁ ñānuvandhe ṇānuvandhe ca kṛti pare dhātor icīva kāryyasya siddhir atidiśyate | &c.
Explicit: avarṇṇād ūṭo vṛddhiḥ ǁ … dhāvu dhautaḥ dhautavān ava ūtiḥ paṭasyotiḥ paṭotiḥ janānavatīti janauḥ janāvau ūṭa iti kiṃ adyoḍhā soḍhā | aur iti siddhe vṛddhigrahaṇaṃ maṅgalārthaṃ ǁ ǁ iti Daurgasiṃhyāṃ vṛttau kṛtsu ṣaṣṭhaḥ pādaḥ samāptaḥ ǁ
MS. Sansk. b. 29(2) [fols 134-136]
Contents
the text of the Kātantra, 4, vi.
Language(s): Sanskrit
Incipit: alaṃkhalvoḥ pratiṣedhayoḥ ktvā vā |
Explicit: avarṇṇād ūto vṛddhiḥ ǁ iti kṛtsu ṣaṣṭhaḥ pādaḥ samāptaḥ ǁ
MS. Sansk. b. 29(3) [fols 137v-139v]
Contents
fragment of the Ṛtusaṃhāra, by Kālidāsa, from I, 1–25.
Language(s): Sanskrit
Incipit: oṃ namaḥ Kāmadevāya ǁ viśeṣasūryyaḥ spṛhanīyacandramāḥ sadāvagāhakṣatavārisancayaḥ |
Explicit: dhvanati pavanaviddhaḥ parvvatānān darīṣu sphuṭati paṭuninādaḥ śuskavaṃsasthalīṣu | prasarati tṛṇamadhye lavdhavṛddhiḥ kṣaṇena glapayati ǁ
MS. Sansk. b. 29(4) [fols 137r, 140-148]
Contents
Odd fragments of works, which it has not been possible to identify.
Language(s): Sanskrit
Additional Information
Record Sources
Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1131 (1–4), p. 129
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. 1131 (1–4), p. 129
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