MS. Sansk. d. 40 (R)

MSS. Sansk. d.

NOTE: This record has yet to be fully checked.

Paśupati Purāṇa, Vāgmatīmāhātmyapraśaṃsā, A.D. 1578.

The Vāgmatīmāhātmyapraśaṃsā, of the Paśupati Purāṇa, incomplete

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Palm-leaves held together by a string passing through a central hole and two boards.

Extent: + +

Dimensions (binding): × cm.

Condition

ff. 1–5, 8, 10–12, 14–18, 22, 24–28, 37, 42, 44, 46, 48 are lost. The rest is in fairly good preservation.

Hand(s)

Nepalese.

Kahna; see f. 49v: ida Kānaracārasyā mūṣikāśve tathaiva ca | caṣyatavyaṃ prajatnena maya Kahnena liṣitaḥ ǁ

History

Origin: A. D. 1578.

f. 49: saṃvat 698 (Nepal era) ⟨1578⟩; saṃvat 698 ---- śanau dine liṣitam īdam | the rest is illegible, the letters being rubbed.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1900 from Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle.

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:

Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1173, p. 149

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. 1173, p. 149

Funding of Cataloguing

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