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MS. Sansk. b. 3

MSS. Sansk. b.

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Nīlakaṇṭha’s Pratiṣṭhāmayūkha, 19th cent.?

Contents

Summary of Contents: The Pratiṣṭhāmayūkha, a treatise on the worship of idols, being the ninth section of the comprehensive treatise on law, the Bhagavanta Bhāskara, written about a. d. 1640 by Nīlakaṇṭha, son of the Mīmāṃsaka Śaṅkar

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: [1v] śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ | śrīgurubhyo nmaḥ | śrīsarasvatyai nmaḥ | atha Pratiṣṭāmayūkhaḥ likhyate | maho mahat samārādhya yuccho (?) sargam athoktavān | pratiṣṭāṃ sarvadevānāṃ Nīlakaṃṭho vadaty asau ǁ 1 ǁ tatra tatkālā Viṣṇudharmottare | caitre vā phālgune vāpi jyeṣṭhe vā mādhave tathā | sarvadevānāṃ pratiṣṭhā śubhadāsite ǁ I
Explicit: [25v] iti śrīviśamitravaśāvataṃsaśrīmahārājādhirājasūmityaveśaṇaṃve (?) bhalamīmāṃsakaśaṃkarabhaṭṭātmajabhaṭṭanīlakaṃṭhena kṛte Bhagavaṃtabhāskare Pratiṣṭāmayūkho navamaḥ |

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: v + 25 + iii
Dimensions (binding): 44.1 × 19.4 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

f. 25v: Veśmāmmadhye bhaṭṭavireśvarātmaja-lilakaṃṭhena liṣito ’yaṃ Pratiṣṭāmayūkhaḥ |

History

Origin: 19th cent.?

middle of the 19th century.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 205).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1491, pp. 279-280

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. 1491, pp. 279-280

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