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MS. Sansk. d. 102

MSS. Sansk. d.

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A Commentary on Hemaoandra’s Śabdānuśāsana, 15th cent.?

Contents

A oommentary on Hemacandra’s Śabdānuśāsana, 1, i to 3, ii

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: arhaṃ ǁ praṇamya kevalālokā | valokitajagatrayaṃ | Jineśaṃ śrīsiddhahemacaṃdraśabdānuśāsane ǁ 1 ǁ śabdavidyāvidāṃ vaṃdyodayacaṃdropadeśata ǁ nyāsata | katicidurgga (?) padavyākhyābhidhūyate ǁ 2 ǁ iha nistuṣaśemuṣī samunme-ṣanirmmitānekavidvajjanamanaś camatkārakāriśāstrani-karavismāpitaviśadaprajñarddhimaharddhikānekasūriḥ ǁ niṣpratim apratibhāsaṃ bhārāpahastitatridaśasūri | śrīkumārapālakṣmāpālapratibodhavi ǁ dhānanikhilakṣoṇi-maṃḍaḷābhyapradānaprabhṛtisaṃkhyātikrāṃtaprabhāva-nāni maṇismṛtigocarasaṃcariṣṇūkṛtaciraṃtanavaira-svāmyādipravarasūriḥ | sugṛhītanāmadheyaḥ śrīhemacaṃdrasūrirnirviḍajaḍiniagrastaṃ samastam api viśvam avalokya tad anukaṃpāparītacetāḥ śabdānuśāsanaṃ kartukāmaḥ | prathamaṃ maṃgalārtham a | bhidheyādipratipādanārthaṃ ceṣṭadevatānamaskāram āha praṇamyeti | nanu pra ǁ yogo ’yaṃ bhāve karmmaṇi vā ǁ ucyate | &c.
Explicit: tadanusaraṇād anyad api sarvaṃ siddhaṃ ǁ 54 ǁ ity ācāryaśrīhemacaṃdraº-tṛtīyasyādhyāyasya dvitīyaḥ pādaḥ saṃpūrṇṇaḥ ǁ cha | śrīr astu |

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: ii + 65
Dimensions (binding): × cm.

Condition

the two figures on f. 1v are slightly damaged.

Hand(s)

Jaina Devanāgarī, very small and neat, but often difficult to read.

History

Origin: 15th cent.?

appears to be as old as MS. Sansk. d. 101 (1143), that is, about a. d. 1460.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 137).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1142, p. 134

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. 1142, p. 134

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