MS. Sansk. d. 169

MSS. Sansk. d.

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Udayanācārya’s Kiraṇāvalī with the author’s Commentary, 18th cent.?

The Kiraṇāvalī, a treatise on Praśastapāda’s commentary on the Vaiśeṣikasūtra, of Udayana, with a commentary by the author

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: [1v] śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ | vidyāsaṃdhyodayo ekād avidyārajanīkṣaye | yad udeti namas tasmai kasmaicid viśvatastviṣe ǁ 1 ǁ yato dravyaṃ guṇāḥ karma tathā jātiḥ parāparā | viśeṣāḥ samavāyo vā tam īśvaram upāsmahe ǁ 2 ǁ arthānāṃ pravivecanāya jagatām antastamasśāṃtaye | sanmārgasya vilokanāya gataye lokasya yātrārthinaḥ | tattāttāmasabhūtabhītaya imāṃ vidyāvatāṃ prītaye | vyāttene Kiraṇāvalīm Udayanaḥ sattarkatejomayīṃ ǁ 3 ǁ

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: iv + 59 + i. In the original the leaves are numbered 1, 3–9, no number, 2—51, 112.

Dimensions (binding): 24.4 × 11.1 cm.

Condition

f. 2 is missing; some leaves are lost after f. 9; ff. 52–111 are missing, and on uncertain number after f. 112.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

f. 51v: Prītimān alikhat | Ff. 1–6 are by an older and different hand.

History

Origin: 18th cent.?

probably about a. d. 1800, and ff. 1–6 a little earlier.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 254).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:

Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1330, p. 202

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. 1330, p. 202

Funding of Cataloguing

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