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MS. Sansk. d. 126

MSS. Sansk. d.

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Jayadratha’s Alaṃkārodāharaṇa, &c., A. D. 1668.

Contents

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper (of the colour of birch bark).
Extent: ii + 35
Dimensions (binding): 24.1 × 17.8 cm.

Condition

ff. 1, 2, 19–22, 28, 29, 31, 32 are slightly damaged, and have been repaired.

Hand(s)

Śāradā.

History

Origin: A. D. 1668.

saṃ 44 phā vati 5 gurau | This corresponds, according to the Saptarṣi era, to a. d. 1668.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 171). Memorandum on original wrapper (f. ii), ‘K 52.’

MS. Sansk. d. 126(1) [fols 1-32]

Contents

Summary of Contents: The Alaṃkārodāharaṇa, a collection of examples illustrating Rājānaka Ruyyaka’s Alaṃkārasarvasva, and based on Jayaratha’s Alaṃkāravimarśinī, by Jayadratha.

Language(s): Sanskrit

Incipit: svasty astu ǁ prajābhyaḥ ǁ śrīguruvaracara-ṇakamalaparāya puṃjebhyo namaḥ ǁ ǁ… ṣālaṅkārodāharaṇaṃ likl yate ǁ oṃ namaskṛtya parāṃ vācaṃm alikhad bālasammataṃ | ko ’py alaṅkārasūtrāṇām udāharaṇamātrakaṃ ǁ ihārthapaunaruktyaṃ śabdapaunaruktyaṃ śabdārthapaunaruktyaṃ ceti trayaḥ paunaruktyaprakārāḥ ǁ ǁ tatrārthapaunaruktyaṃ prarūḍhaṃ doṣaḥ ǁ yathā ǁ hariṇanayanāṃ sāraṅgākṣīṃ | &c.
Explicit: pratijñāmātram evaitad ity upckṣyaṃ vicakṣaṇaiḥ | Alaṅkāravimarśinyāṃ yuktir uktacarātra yat ǁ Saṅgakam uddiśya nijaṃ saty api bālye śrutārthinaṃ pautraṃ ǁ alikhan nikhilālaṅkṛtisiddhāntaṃ Jayarathaḥ sphuṭā (rtha, added sec. m.) padam ǁ paripūrṇam idam Alankārodāharaṇaṃ ǁ kṛtir vipaścidvaraśrījayadrathasya ǁ

MS. Sansk. d. 126(2) [fols 32-33]

Contents

Multiple disconnected fragments

Language(s): Sanskrit

Additional Information

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1157 (1, 2), p. 140

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. 1157 (1, 2), p. 140

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