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MS. Sansk. d. 82

MSS. Sansk. d.

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Kālidāsa’s Raghuvaṃśa, A. D. 1670.

Contents

The Raghuvaṃśa, by Kālidāsa, complete in 19 sargas

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: ǁ 60 ǁ svasti śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ǁ vāgarthāv iva saṃpṛktau | &c.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: ii + 113
Dimensions (binding): 26.4 × 13.3 cm.

Condition

the margin is damaged, and a few letters of the marginal notes are lost on ff. 1–3, 5, 17, 22, 68.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī in black ink.

Ṭīkamaśarman. (The first syllable is corrected from Ṭo, and kama also is a correction, but the original reading cannot be restored.)

History

Origin: A. D. 1670.

saṃvat 1726 ⟨1670⟩ mārgaśiraśukla 7 bhṛgudine |

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 80).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1230, p. 168

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. 1230, p. 168

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