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MS. Sansk. d. 302

MSS. Sansk. d.

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Sakalakīrti’s Pārśvanāthacaritra, A. D. 1741.

Contents

Summary of Contents: The Pārśvanāthacaritra, a legendary history of the tīrthaṃkara Pārśvanātha, written in ślokas in the kāvya style, by Sakalakīrti, who flourished about a. d. 1464

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: iii + 165 + ii
Dimensions (binding): × cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī, Jaina style.

f. 165v: śrīpratāpapure paṃḍitadayālajī likhitāmam idaṃ pustakaṃ śubhaṃ bhavatu |

History

Origin: A. D. 1741.

f. 105v: saṃvat 1797 ⟨1741⟩ varṣe mārgaśirṣamāse śuklapakṣe tīthau 6 guruvāsare |

Provenance and Acquisition

on f. 165v is written in a later hand: pustakaṃ pamº-śivajīrāmaṭoḍāhālāko ciraṃjīvīnemicaṃdapaṭhanārthaṃ |

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 451).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1397, p. 234

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. 1397, p. 234

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