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MS. Sansk. d. 69

MSS. Sansk. d.

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Kṣemendra’s Darpadalana, 17th cent.?

Contents

The Darpadalana, by Kṣemendra Vyāsadāsa

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: oṃ namo bhagava[t]e [k]āmadevāya ǁ śrīśārikābhagavatyai namaḥ ǁ śrīgurave namaḥ ǁ oṃ praśāntāśeṣa -- ghnāya darpasarpāpasarpaṇāt | namaḥ śamanidhānāya svaprakāśavikā--- saṃsāraº | &c.
Explicit: iti Darpadalane tapovicāras saptamaḥ [samāp]tam idaṃ Darpadalanaṃ [kṛ] tir mahākaveḥ Vyāsadāsāparanāmnaḥ Kṣe[me] ndra [syet]i [śi]vam astu sarvajagatāṃ ǁ

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: ii + 20 + ix
Dimensions (binding): 23.2 × 19.4 cm.

Condition

ff. 1, 2 are much damaged; there are holes in ff. 3, 4, and ff. 16–20 are slightly damaged.

Hand(s)

Śaradā.

History

Origin: 17th cent.?

probably about a. d. 1700.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 63). Memorandum on original wrapper (f. ii), ‘K 40.’

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1237, p. 171

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. 1237, p. 171

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