MS. Sansk. d. 79

MSS. Sansk. d.

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A Commentary on Kālidāsa’s Meghadūta, 18th cent.?

An anonymous commentary (vivaraṇa) on Kālidāsa’s Meghadūta

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: arhaṃ ǁ śrīpārśvanāthāya namaḥ ǁ atra kāvyaṃ kila rasavad upādeyaṃ ratyāḥ śṛgārādayaḥ | yato naganagarasaritsāgarattu-caṃdrārkodayodyānajvalakelimadhupā nasuratamaṃtra-dyūtaprayāṇāddūtavijināyakābhyudayavivādavipralaṃ-bhakumāravarṇṇanair vispaṣṭair amībhir aṣṭādaśabhir lakṣaṇair lakṣitaṃ mahākāvyam ucyate iha yathāpy eteṣāṃ lakṣaṇānām abhāvas tathāpi mahākavi | śrīkālidāsaviracanād idam api mahākāvyam ucyate kaścit anirdiṣṭanāmā yakṣo Rāmagiryāśrameṣu vasatiṃ cakre nivāsaṃ akarṣyīta Rāmo manojño giriḥ | &c.

Explicit: iti Meghadūtakāvyasya vivaraṇaṃ samāptaṃ ǁ

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: ii + 19 + xii

Dimensions (binding): 27.0 × 11.7 cm.

Condition

a few letters are lost on ff. 18v, 19 by the two leaves sticking together.

Hand(s)

Jaina Devanāgarī.

Padmānanda, pupil of Śrīharṣāṇandagaṇi.

History

Origin: 18th cent.?

probably beginning of the 18th century.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 77).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:

Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1253, 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. 1253, p. 177

Funding of Cataloguing

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