MS. Sansk. c. 63

MSS. Sansk. c.

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Sūrya’s Rāmakṛṣṇakāvya, with his own Commentary, 19th cent.?

Summary of Contents: The Rāmakṛṣṇākāvya, a vilomākṣarakāvya (artificial poem to be read both ways), by the astrologer and poet Paṇḍit Sūrya Bhaṭṭa, with a commentary by the author himself

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: ii + 18 + vi

Dimensions (binding): 32.1 × 14.3 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

History

Origin: 19th cent.?

probably about a. d. 1850.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 82).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:

Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1241, p. 172

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. 1241, p. 172

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