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MS. Sansk. d. 31 (R)

MSS. Sansk. d.

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Rāmasūri’s Liṅganirṇayabhūṣaṇa, 18th cent.?

Contents

Fragments of the Liṅganirṇayabhūṣaṇa, an elementary treatise on the gender of nouns, by Rāmasūri, the son of Torūriviṣṇu

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: vāṇīṃ praṇamya śirasā bālānāṃ jñānasiddhaye | strīpuṃnapuṃsakaṃ svalpaṃ varṇyate śāstraniścitaṃ ǁ 1 ǁ Torūriviṣṇuviduṣas sūnunā Rāmasūruriṇā | viracyate budhaślāghyaṃ Liṃganirṇayābhūṣaṇaṃ | ādau tāvat strīliṃgā ucyaṃte | &c.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Palm-leaves, fastened together by a string going through two holes.
Extent: 13
Dimensions (binding): × cm.

Condition

ff. 3 and 11 are damaged.

Hand(s)

Telugu.

History

Origin: 18th cent.?

probably early 18th century.

Provenance and Acquisition

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1147, p. 136

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. 1147, p. 136

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