MS. Sansk. d. 85

MSS. Sansk. d.

NOTE: This record has yet to be fully checked.

Mayūra’s Sūryaśataka, 17th or 18th cent.?

The Sūryaśata Kāvya or Sūryaśataka, by Mayūra

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: pūrayaṃtas tato ’pi | &c.

Explicit: devaḥ kiṃ bāṃdhavaḥ | &c.… evaṃ nirṇṇīyate taḥ ka iva na jagatāṃ sarvyathā sarvvadāsau sarvākāropakārī diśatu daśa śatābhīśur alparthitaṃ vaḥ ǁ 100 ǁ iti śrīsūryaśatakāvyaṃ samāpi ǁ

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: ii + 9 + xi

Dimensions (binding): 26.7 × 13.3 cm.

Hand(s)

Jaina Devanāgarī.

History

Origin: 17th or 18th cent.?

probably about a. d. 1650.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 90).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:

Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1256, p. 178

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. 1256, p. 178

Funding of Cataloguing

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