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MS. Sansk. c. 71 (R)

MSS. Sansk. c.

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Mammaṭa’s Kāvyaprakāśa, A. D. 1568.

Contents

The Kāvyaprakāśa, by Mammaṭa and Alaka, complete in ten ullāsas

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: oṃ namo mahāgaṇeśāya ǁ granthārambhe vighnavighātāya samuciteṣṭadevatāṃ granthakṛt parāmṛśati ǁ niyatikṛtaº |
Explicit: tad ete ’laṅkāradoṣā yathāsambhavam anye ’py evaṃjātīyakāḥ pūrvvoktayaiva doṣajātyā svīkṛtā na pṛthakpratipādanam arhantīti śivaṃ ǁ iti Kāvyaprakāśikāyām arthālaṅkāro nāma daśama ullāsaḥ ǁ śrīr astu ǁ

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Palm-leaves, held together by a string going through one central hole.
Extent: v + 115
Dimensions (binding): × cm.

Condition

the covering leaves, ff. iii, iv, 114, 115, are damaged. A few lines of ff. 82v, 83 have become illegible through damp.

Hand(s)

Bengālī.

Hṛdayānandaśarman.

History

Origin: A. D. 1568.

śāke navativedendau (i. e. śāke 1490 = a. d. 1568) |

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 173). Memorandum on original wrapper (inside box), ‘Benares, no. 15.’

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1158, pp. 140-141

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. 1158, pp. 140-141

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