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MS. Sansk. d. 100

MSS. Sansk. d.

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Nāgeśabhaṭṭa’s Laghuśabdenduśekhara, between A. D. 1810–1815?

Contents

A fragment of the Laghuśabdenduśekhara, a commentary on the Siddhāntakaumudī, by Nāgeśabhaṭṭa.

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ǁ Pātaṃjale Mahābhāṣye kṛtabhūripariśramaḥ ǁ Śivabhaṭṭasuto dhīmān Satīdevyās tu garbhajaḥ ǁ 1 ǁ … natvā phaṇīśaṃ Nāgeśas tanute ’rthaprakāśakam ǁ manoramomārdhadehaṃ Laghuśabdeṃduśekharaṃ ǁ 3 ǁ
Explicit: [202v] sādhikaraṇyaṃ dṛṣṭvānumānād gaṃtaṃvyaṃ prakṛter api tat bhavatīti tatra kai.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: ii + 202 + ii
Dimensions (binding): 26.0 × 12.1 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

History

Origin: A. D. 1810–1815?

the handwriting and paper are the same as those of MS. Sansk. d. 98 (1128), dated saṃvat 1868. This MS., therefore, must have been copied about the same time, probably between a. d. 1811 and 1813.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 135).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1122, p. 126

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. 1122, p. 126

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