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MS. Sansk. c. 81

MSS. Sansk. c.

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Bhagavadbhaktivilāsa, 18th cent.?

Contents

The Bhagavadbhaktivilāsa, a work of devotion by a follower of the school of Caitanya (16th century)

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: [51] Bhagavadbhaktivilāse Mūrtiprādurbhāvo nāmāṣṭādaśo vilāśaḥ | cha | śrīcaitanyaṃ praviṣṭo ’smi śaraṇaṃ suṣṭu yena hi | āviṣṭo yāti duṣṭo ’pi pratiṣṭāṃ sadabhiṣṭutaṃ ǁ atha śrīmūrtipratiṣṭā |

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: + +
Dimensions (binding): 31.8 × 16.8 cm.

Condition

ff. 1–50, 57, 60–506, 508, 509 are lost, and the MS. is unfinished.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

History

Origin: 18th cent.?

perhaps about a. d. 1800, but it may be more modern.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzach (MS. 209).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1333, p. 202

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. 1333, p. 202

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