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MS. Sansk. d. 72

MSS. Sansk. d.

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Bilvamaṅgala, Śrāddhadvāsaptatikālāh, &c., and Kāvyaprakāśasaṅketa, 17th cent.?

Contents

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Birch bark.
Extent: 26
Dimensions (binding): 28.6 × 21.6 cm.

Hand(s)

Śaradā.

History

Origin: 17th cent.?

probably about the same age as MS. Sansk. d. 65, i. e. about a. d. 1650.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MSS. 68, 215, 174). Doubtless purchased in Śrīnagara.

MS. Sansk. d. 72(1) [fols 23-28]

Contents

A fragment of the Bilvamaṅgala, a poem on the life of Kṛṣṇa, by Bilvamaṅgala

Language(s): Sanskrit

Incipit: ratnas sākaṃ hṛdy āsīnaḥ | yatra vā tatra vā deva yadi viśvasimas tvayi | nirvāṇam api du [ṣka?] ram arvācīnāni kiṃ punaḥ |

MS. Sansk. d. 72(2) [fols 28-29v]

Contents

Three short ṭreatises on Śrāddha rites

Language(s): Sanskrit

MS. Sansk. d. 72(3) [fols 29v-48]

Contents

The Kāvyaprakāśasaṅketa, a commentary on the Kāvyaprakāśa of Mammaṭa and Alaka, by Rājāna Rucaka

Language(s): Sanskrit

Incipit: oṃ namo Nṛsiṃhāya ǁ oṃ Kāvyaprakāśasaṅketaḥ raseti | śṛṅgāra-hāsyakaruṇaraudravīrabhayānakāḥ bībhatsādbhutaśāntāś ca nava nāṭyarasā smṛtāḥ iti kāvyarasāḥ |
Explicit: iti Rājānarucakakṛtā Kāvyaprakāśavivṛtir iyatyevoṃ ǁ śubham astu ǁ

Additional Information

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1095 (1–3), p. 115

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Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    Moriz Winternitz and Arthur Berriedale Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1905), no. 1095 (1–3), p. 115

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