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.
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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