MS. Sansk. d. 64

MSS. Sansk. d.

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Śaṅkarācārya’s Ānandalaharī with Commentary, early 18th cent.?

The Ānandalaharī, or Saundaryalaharī, a poem by Śaṅkarācārya, with a commentary by Gaurīkānta Sārvabhauma

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: oṃ (?) ǁ svasti śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ǁ ǁ oṃkārottamaramyaharmyanilayāṃ prāsādamadhyasthitāṃ kāmākhyāṃ bhuvaneśvarīṃ nir … māṃ… hmādibhir vaṃditāṃ | &c. Then follows: paramātmā mātmā pṛthagbhūtāṃ praṇamya parameśvariṃ | Ānaṃdalaharītīkā Gaurīkāṃtena tanyate ǁ 3 ǁ Gaurīkāṃtasārvabhaumabhaṭṭācāryaḥ sudhīr imāṃ | Ānaṃdalaharīṭīkāṃ tanute viduṣāṃ mude ǁ 4 ǁ

Explicit: pūjāṃ bhūrimahībhujāṃ sadasi yo lebhe ’tidhīmān ka |

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: + +

Dimensions (binding): 27.9 × 13.3 cm.

Condition

ff. 3, 4a, 4b are slightly damaged (a few letters lost).

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

History

Origin: 18th cent.?

unfortunately the last leaf, containing the colophon, is lost. The MS. appears to be old, and was probably written at the beginning of the 18th century, perhaps even earlier.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 51).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:

Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1261, pp. 179-180

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. 1261, pp. 179-180

Funding of Cataloguing

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