MS. Sansk. b. 1

MSS. Sansk. b.

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Kāśīkhaṇḍa with Rāmānanda’s Commentary, A. D. 1718 or 1778?

The Kāśīkhaṇḍa from the Skanda Purāṇa, together with a commentary by Rāmānanda

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: iv + 353 + 254

Dimensions (binding): 40.6 × 19.7 cm.

Condition

the MS. has been repaired with transparent and brown paper in many places; parts of the text are lost, in part I, on ff. 11–13, 28, 29, 59, 98, 256, 257, 413; in part II, on ff. 101–103, 108, 115, 120, 122, 159, 160, 162–200, 240, 241, 243, 251.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

Kṛṣṇāji Viṣṇu of Benares, who wrote it for Viśvanātha Bhārathī.

History

Origin: A. D. 1718 or 1778?

at the end of part I the following date is given: vilaṃbasaṃvachare māghasudhapāḍivā ǁ As the MS. appears to be fairly old, this may be a. d. 1778, or 1718, or 1658 (see C. P. Brown’s Carnatic Chronology): probably it is a. d. 1718. By the Bṛhaspati cycle, which is in use in the north, it would be a. d. 1708–1709, Sewell and Dīkṣit, Indian Calendar, p. xciv.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 29).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:

Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1193, p. 156

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. 1193, p. 156

Funding of Cataloguing

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