MS. Sansk. d. 132

MSS. Sansk. d.

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Somacandra’s Commentary on Kedāra’s Vṛttaratnākara, A. D. 1586.

The Vṛttaratnākaravṛtti, a commentary on Kedāra’s Vrttaratnākara, composed in a. d. 1273 by Somacandra.

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: ii + 18 + xiv

Dimensions (binding): 27.6 × 14.9 cm.

Condition

the MS. is illegible in many places owing to the separation of leaves which had stuck together. Especially bad are ff. 10v, 11, 15v, and 16.

Hand(s)

Jaina Devanāgarī.

Amīsundara, who says of himself: 1gaṇi-1maṃḍalīmaṃḍanāyamānāmāna 1mānavijñānajñānani-dhānasamāna 1gaṇi 1śrīśrī 18 śrī 1manūṛṣi 1vineyāṇunāgaṇi Amīsuṃdareṇālekhi svavācanakṛte pareṣām upakṛtihetave ca ǁ

History

Origin: A. D. 1586.

saṃvat 1642 ⟨1586⟩ varṣe vaiśākhamāsi śuklapakṣe ’kṣayatṛtīyāyāṃ ǁ rohiṇīramaṇavāre | Jāvālipure sāº-acalasyālaye … śrīmatśramaṇasaṃ-ghabhaṭṭārakasya ca | śrīghṛtakallolapārśvanāthaprasādāt ǁ

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 181).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:

Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1154, pp. 137-139

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. 1154, pp. 137-139

Funding of Cataloguing

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