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Vararuci’s Ekakṣaranāmamālā, 18th cent.?

Contents

The Ekākṣaranāmamālā, or Ekākṣaranighaṇṭu, by Vararuci

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: ǁ oṃ namaḥ ǁ Gaṃgām Umām umaumāmaṃ saṃnamya vyāharāmy ahaṃ ǁ kāvyakauśalasiddhyartham Ekākṣaranighuṭukaṃ ǁ 1 ǁ akāro Vāsudevaḥ syād ākāras tu pitāmahaḥ ǁ ikāra ucyate Kāmo Lakṣmīr īkāra ucyate ǁ 2 ǁ
Explicit: hiḥ syād dheto vitarane iathā hir avadhāraṇe ǁ hetuḥ saṃvodhane proktaḥ kṣaḥ kṣetre rākṣase ’pi ca ǁ 37 ǁ iti vākrucaṃ proktaṃ yo vetty enaṃ nighaṃṭukaṃ ǁ vāgarṇave yathākāmaṃ tasya svāṃtaṃ pravarttate ǁ 38 ǁ iti śrīekākṣaranāmamālā vidvadvararucikṛtā samāptā ǁ

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: ii + 2 + xxv
Dimensions (binding): 27.3 × 12.4 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

History

Origin: 18th cent.?

probably about a. d. 1750.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 152).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1113, p. 122

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. 1113, p. 122

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