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MS. Sansk. d. 113

MSS. Sansk. d.

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Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇiṭīkā, 16th or 17th cent.?

Contents

Language(s): Sanskrit.

A fragment of six lines (f. iii), being the end of a Prākrit work called Ratnacūḍacaṭhapahī.

Incipit: caudahapūraba ikhāraha aṃga |
Explicit: caṃda sūrajaṃ | nirmmalatapaï | ratnacūḍa taü carita esāra | śrī saṃgha nadra (?) jayarakāra ǁ 40 ǁ iti śrīratnacū-ḍacaṭhapahī ǁ samāptaḥ ǁ śrīkalyāṇa ǁ

The Abhidhānacintāmaṇināmamālāṭīkā, being a commentary on his own Abhidhānacintāmaṇi, by Hemacandra.

Incipit: ǁ oṃ namaḥ śrījināyaḥ ǁ arhaṃ ǁ dharmmatīrthakṛtāṃ vācaṃ natvā tattvābhidhāyinaṃ ǁ svopajñanāmamālāyā vivṛtiṃ vidadhāmy ahaṃ ǁ 1 ǁ śreyo ’rtham ayam āraṃbhaḥ kiṃ tatrā … vikachanaiḥ | parātmaniṃdāstotre hi nādriyaṃte manīṣiṇaḥ ǁ 2 ǁ prāmāṇgaṃ Vāsuker Vyāḍer vyutpattir ddhanapālataḥ | &c.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: + +
Dimensions (binding): 26.7 × 12.1 cm.

Condition

ff. 33 and 126 are more aeriously, ff. iii, 1, 14, 24, 62 (soiled), 113 are slightly, damaged. Ff. 198–204, 212–216, 273, &c., are partly illegible owing to the separation of leaves which had stuck together.

Hand(s)

Jaina Devanāgarī.

History

Origin: 16th or 17th cent.?

probably end of the 16th, or beginning of the 17 th century.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 149).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1108 (1, 2), pp. 120-121

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. 1108 (1, 2), pp. 120-121

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