MS. Sansk. d. 80

MSS. Sansk. d.

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A Commentary (avacūri) on Kālidāsa’s Meghadūta, 17th cent.?

A commentary (avacūri) on Kālidāsa’s Meghadūta, by a Jaina author, complete in 126 verses

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: ǁ kaścid iti | kaścit anirdiṣṭanāmā yakṣaḥ Rāmagiryāśrameṣu Citrakūṭāśrameṣu vasatiṃ nivāsaṃ cakre akarot | Rāmagireḥ āśramāḥ Rāmagiryāśramāḥ teṣu anāmagṛhya iti kathaṃ ǁ mitradrohī | &c.

Explicit: śrutveti | dhaneśo ’pi yakṣarājo ’pi | &c. ... avirataśukhaṃ yathā bhavati tathā ǁ 126 ǁ iti saṃpūrṇṇā Meghadūtamahākāvyasyāvacūriḥ ǁ

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: ii + 24

Dimensions (binding): 27.0 × 12.1 cm.

Hand(s)

Jaina Devanāgarī.

Scribe; Vinayasomo, who wrote it for Ciraṃjīvī Somajī.

History

Origin: 17th cent.?

probably about a. d. 1650–1700.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 78).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:

Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1251, p. 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. 1251, p. 177

Funding of Cataloguing

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