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MS. Sansk. d. 65

MSS. Sansk. d.

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Jonarāja’s Commentaries on Bhāravi’s Kirātārjunīya and Maṅkhaka’s Śrīkaṇṭhaoarita, A. D. 1648.

Contents

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Birch bark.
Extent: + +
Dimensions (binding): 30.8 × 27.9 cm.

Condition

of ff. 4, 16–33, 202–203, and 218–219, only fragments are left. Ff. 5, 6, 12–15, 41, 119, 160, 180, 200, 201, 204, 221–223, 260 are damaged (one or two lines lost). The leaves are protected by transparent paper, and some words are lost or injured on ff. 7–11, 45, 120, 140–142, 181, 182, 188, 189, 206–217, 224–237, 279, 280, 300, 322, 336, 341–343.

Hand(s)

Śaradā.

Dāmodaraka, who signs in the same way as in MS. Sansk. c. 54 (1180).

History

Origin: A. D. 1648.

saṃvat 24 kārtikavati trayodaśyāṃ budhe ǁ ǁ śrīśākah 1570⟨1648⟩| See Hultzsch, Z.D.M.G., XL, 9.

Provenance and Acquisition

MS. Sansk. d. 65(1) [fols 4-157]

Contents

Bhāravi’s Kirātārjunīya, together with the commentary by Jonarāja

Language(s): Sanskrit

Explicit: tathā svadhāmnā lokānāṃ satyādīnām upariṣṭhāt kṛtāvasthitiḥ tathā lakṣmyā sarvābhibhāvukayā śrīyā dīptaṃ prakāśamānam iti bhadraṃ ǁ 47 ǁ ǁ iti śrīnonarājasūnupaṇḍitabhaṭṭajonarājakṛtāyāṃ Kirātārjumyatīkāyām aṣṭādaśas sargaḥ ǁ ǁ samāptam idaṃ śrīkirātārjunīyaṃ nāma mahākāvyaṃ ǁ kṛtir mahākaver Bhāraveḥ ǁ ǁ śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ǁ śubham astu sarvajagatāṃ ǁ

MS. Sansk. d. 65(2) [fols 157v-361]

Contents

Maṅkhaka’s Śrīkaṇṭhacarita, together with the commentary by Jonarāja

Language(s): Sanskrit

Additional Information

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1234 (1, 2), pp. 169-170

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. 1234 (1, 2), pp. 169-170

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