MS. Sansk. d. 88
MSS. Sansk. d.
A composite paper manuscript containing fourteen Nāṭakas, written probably by the same hand and bound contemporarily.
Physical Description
Condition
Hand(s)
Śaradā in black ink.
Scribe: Rājānalasaka
‘Rājānalasaka, who gives his name in the colophons of no. 3, 7, 9, and 11. With the exception of no. 2, and probably no. 14, the other Nāṭakas are clearly written by the same hand.’
Binding
Contemporary soft leather binding in stamped red leather, with a Persian-style flap and a textile ribbon. Unidentified Persian additions in black ink on the front board. Bodleian Library shelfmark and description tooled in gold on the spine. Cardboard cover box.
Repairs in darker red leather. In unstable condition.
History
‘The bulk of the MS. must have been written in the (Saptarṣi) saṃvat years 69 and 70 ⟨1694 CE⟩. This appears from the dates given in the colophons of nos. 3, 7, and 9. F. 164: saṃ 69 caitra vati tṛtīyāyāṃ likhitaṃ | F. 461v: saṃ 70 ?? cuti 1 śukre likhitaṃ mayā | F. 514. saṃvat 70 vai śuti caturdaśyāṃ bhaumavāsare likhitaṃ mayā Rājānalasakena |’
Provenance and Acquisition
Former owner's shelfmark: ‘Nos. 9, 102, 108, 105, 94, 101, 109, 98, 107, 106, 91, 110, 97, 103’ written in red ink on the original wrapper, now inset on f. 1r.
Memorandum ‘Śrīnagar, K. No.1–14.’ written in pencil on the original wrapper, now inset on f. 1r.
Bought in 1887 from Eugen Hultzsch.
MS. Sansk. d. 88 (1)
Contents
Physical Description
Condition
Original foliation lost on some folios.
Hand(s)
Śaradā in black ink.
Abbreviated marginal title on bottom-left margin.
Marginal notes in the same hand.
Interlinear Sanskrit translations of Prakrit passages in the same hand.
Erasures in yellow paste.
MS. Sansk. d. 88 (2)
Contents
Physical Description
Condition
Original foliation lost on some folios.
Hand(s)
Śaradā in black ink.
Abbreviated marginal title on bottom-left margin.
Marginal corrections in the same hand.
Erasures in yellow paste.
MS. Sansk. d. 88 (3)
Contents
Physical Description
Condition
Abbreviated marginal title on bottom-left margin.
MS. Sansk. d. 88 (4-5)
Contents
Physical Description
Condition
F. 225 left blank.
Ff. 224 and 226 both wrongly foliated as 61 and wrongly bound. F. 224 ought to follow f.226.
Hand(s)
Śaradā in black ink.
Abbreviated marginal title on bottom-left margin.
An interlinear Sanskrit translation of the Prakrit passages given on ff. 216-223.
Some interlinear notes in different hand on ff. 227-239.
MS. Sansk. d. 88 (6)
Contents
Physical Description
Condition
F. 309 left blank, ‘but nothing is missing’.
Original foliation is missing on ff. 310-335 [ff. 30-55 in original foliation].
Hand(s)
Śaradā in black ink.
Decoration
Doodle in black ink on f. 405v
Abbreviated marginal title on bottom-left margin.
Interlinear Sanskrit translations of Prakrit passages throughout.
Marginal notes in the same hand on ff. 310-313.
MS. Sansk. d. 88 (7)
Contents
Physical Description
Condition
Lacuna on f. 423.
Abbreviated marginal title on bottom-left margin.
Marginal note in red ink on f. 407.
MS. Sansk. d. 88 (8)
Contents
Also known as Pracaṇḍapāṇḍava.
Physical Description
Condition
A loss of akṣaras on f. 462-3.
Hand(s)
Śaradā in black ink.
Abbreviated marginal title on bottom-left margin.
Interlinear Sanskrit translations of Prakrit passages.
Some marginal notes in at least two hands.
MS. Sansk. d. 88 (9-10)
Contents
Physical Description
Condition
Abbreviated marginal title on bottom-left margin.
Interlinear Sanskrit translations of Prakrit passages on ff. 479v-527r.
MS. Sansk. d. 88 (11)
Contents
Physical Description
Condition
Abbreviated marginal title on bottom-left margin.
Interlinear Sanskrit translations of Prakrit passages.
Marginal notes in various hands on .
Occasional erasures in yellow paste.
MS. Sansk. d. 88 (12)
Contents
Physical Description
Condition
Hand(s)
Śaradā in black ink.
Abbreviated marginal title on bottom-left margin.
A long marginal note on f. 660v, and shorter marginalia throughout.
Erasures in yellow paste.
MS. Sansk. d. 88 (13)
Contents
Physical Description
Condition
Hand(s)
Śaradā in black ink.
Abbreviated marginal title on bottom-left margin.
Interlinear Sanskrit translations of Prakrit passages on ff. 712-716.
Occassional marginal notes.
MS. Sansk. d. 88 (14)
Contents
Physical Description
Condition
Original foliation missing.
Hand(s)
Śaradā in black ink. Different hand than the rest of the manuscript.
Some interlinear and marginal notes throughout.
MS. Sansk. d. 88 (15)
Contents
Physical Description
Hand(s)
Śaradā in black ink.
Additional Information
Record Sources
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
The cataloguing of this item was made possible through a benefaction from the late John P. Clay, founder and benefactor of the Clay Sanskrit Library.