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MS. Sansk. d. 81

MSS. Sansk. d.

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Commentary (avacūri) on Kālidāsa’s Meghadūta, A.D. 1623?

Contents

A commentary (avacūri) on Kālidāsa’s Meghadūta, complete in 125 verses

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: oṃ jināya ǁ kaścit anirdiṣṭanāmā yakṣaḥ | Rāmagiryāśrameṣu Citrakūṭācalatapovaneṣu vasatiṃ cakāra | āvāsaṃ cakāra | yakṣasya nāma kiṃ noktaṃ svāmidrohakatvāt | āśrameṣu vahuvacanaṃ kiṃ kṛtaṃ | &c.
Explicit: śrutvā vārttāṃ o ǁ dhaneśo ’pi dhanado ’pi tāṃ | &c…. ata eva kīdṛśau hṛṣṭacittau ǁ 25 ǁ iha yady api girinagarasaritsarovarakamalākaravasaṃtotsavamalayā-nilajalakrīḍāpuṣpāvacayacaṃdrasūryodayastemayasvar-ggabaṃdhādīnāṃ mahākāvyalakṣaṇānām abhāvāt tathāpi mahākaviśrīkālidāsaviracitatvāt | idaṃ mahākāvyam ucyate ǁ iti Meghadutamahākāvyfisyāvacūriḥ saṃpūrṇā ǁ śubhaṃ bhavatu ǁ

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: ii + 12 + ix
Dimensions (binding): 27.9 × 12.4 cm.

Condition

f. 12 is damaged.

Hand(s)

Jaina Devanāgarī.

Yaśavanta (?).

History

Origin: A. D. 1623?

ǁ naṃdasvarakalāvarṣe madhumāsi śitau tathā paṃcamyāṃ sukuje vāre Yaśavaṃto ‘likhan nudā ǁ 1 ǁ This is the (saṃvat or śaka?) year 1679 (either a. d. 1623 or 1757): probably the saṃvat year (i. e. a. d. 1623) is nieant, according to the usual custom.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 79).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1250, pp. 176-177

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. 1250, pp. 176-177

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