MS. Sansk. d. 89

MSS. Sansk. d.

NOTE: This record has yet to be fully checked.

Simhāsanadvātriṃśatkathānaka, A.D. 1655.

The Siṃhāsanadvātriṃśatkathānaka (or Vikramādityacarita, or Vikramacarita)

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: ǁ oṃ namaḥ ǁ yaṃ vrahma vedāṃtavido vadaṃti | paraṃ pradhānaṃ puruṣas tathānye | viśrodgateḥ kāraṇam īśvaraṃ vā ǁ tasmai namo vighnavināśanāya ǁ 1 ǁ

Explicit: tarhi tava prasādena śāpamokṣaḥ saṃjātaḥ | saṃprati vayaṃ tubhyaṃ prasannāsma | rājan varaṃ vṛṇu | rājābhojenoktaṃ | mama kasminn api vasuny abhilāṣo nāsti | tataḥ putrikābhir uktaṃ | yaḥ yaḥ ko ’pi manobuddhipūrvakaṃ etat kathānakaṃ śroṣyasi sa dhairyaśauryaprauḍhipratāpalakṣmīputrapautrakīrttivijayavādi bhaviṣyati | iti varaṃ dattvā 2 tū2 ṣṇibhūtāḥ | Bhojarāje tasmin siṃhāsane Gaurīśvarau pratiṣṭhāpya mahotsavaṃ kṛtvā rājyaṃ cakāraḥ ǁ iti Siṃhāsanadvātriṃśatkathānakaṃ samāptaṃ ǁ 32 saṃpūrṇṇaṃḥ |

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: iii + 9 + x

Dimensions (binding): 26.4 × 13.7 cm.

Hand(s)

Jaina Devanāgarī.

Gaṇi Uttamacandra, pupil of Vidyācandra Gaṇi. He wrote in the town of Vijā (or Śrvīja (?) śrīvījāpure).

History

Origin: A. D. 1655.

saṃvat 1711 ⟨1655⟩ varṣe poṣavadi 12 budhe |

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 116).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:

Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1276, p. 185

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. 1276, p. 185

Funding of Cataloguing

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