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MS. Sansk. d. 286

MSS. Sansk. d.

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Hemaoandra’s Triṣaṣṭiśalākāpuruṣacarita, Parvan I, 17th cent.?

Contents

Summary of Contents: The Triṣaṣṭiśalākāpuruṣacarita, a mahākāvya treating of the twenty-four Jinas, the twelve Cakravartins, the nine Vāsudevas, the nine Baladevas, the nine Viṣṇudviṣ

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: [1v] arhaṃ | sakalārhapratiṣṭānam adhiṣṭānaṃ śivaśrīyaḥ | bhūrbhuvaḥsvastraryaśānam ārhaṃtaṃ praṇidadhmahe ǁ 1 ǁ
Explicit: [170v] ity ācāryaśrīhemacaṃdraviracite Triṣaṣṭiśalākāpuruṣacarite Mahākāvye prathamaparvaṇi Marīcibhavabhāviśalākāpuruṣabhagavannirvāṇa | bharatanirvāṇavarṇnano nāma ṣaṣṭaḥ sargaḥ chaḥ | samāptaṃ ca śrīṛṣabhasvāmibharatacakravarttipratibaṃdhaṃ prathamaṃ parva | cha | śubhaṃ bhavatuḥ | graṃtha 6500 |

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: iv + 170 + ii
Dimensions (binding): 27.6 × 12.7 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī, Jaina style, ugly writing.

f. 170v: paṃ śrīśivavijayaganiśiṣyaharṣavijayamuninā bhāṃḍāgāre muktā pratiḥ |

History

Origin: 17th cent.?

somewhat doubtful, perhaps about a. d. 1700.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 435).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1390, pp. 230-231

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. 1390, pp. 230-231

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