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MS. Sansk. c. 112

MSS. Sansk. c.

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Gaṇapati’s Muhurtagaṇapati, A. D. 1841.

Contents

The Muhūrtagaṇapati of Gaṇapati Rāvala, a work on astronomy, composed according to the preface, stanza 8, in a. d. 1685

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: [2v] śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ | śrīmatyai kalpavatyeva Haimayatyā niratyayaḥ | Jajantyāliṅgitaḥ kalpadrumaḥ satphaladaḥ śivaḥ ‖
Explicit: [118v] iti śrīmaddaivajñārāvala-agnihotrīcāturmāsyayājīsamāsāditapuruṣārtha daivajñahariśaṃkarasūnugaṇapatikṛte Muhūrttagaṇapatau granthālaṃkāraprakaraṇaṃ dvāviṃśaṃ samāptaṃ |

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: iii + 119 + i. In the original foliation f. 1 is not numbered and f. 110 is repeated, thus making only 117 ff.
Dimensions (binding): 35.2 × 15.2 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

History

Origin: A. D. 1841.

f. 119: saṃvat 1897 ⟨1841⟩ tattra kārttike māsi śuklapakṣe tithau navamyāṃ bhaumavāsare |

Provenance and Acquisition

f. 119: pustaka Kālikāprasādagauḍakī Ajodhyāprasādagauḍamiśravaṃśe yātā tasya putraḥ | Sthānalakṣnāpurgyāṃ tasya madhye Dugahuṃvāṃ nāma pratiṣṭḥitaṃ tatra vāsaḥ | This may be, and probably is, also the scribe. Cf. MSS. Sansk. f. 19, 20 (1469, 1475).

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 314).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1557, p. 301

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Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    Moriz Winternitz and Arthur Berriedale Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1905), no. 1557, p. 301

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