MS. Sansk. d. 300

MSS. Sansk. d.

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Śubhaoandra’s Pāṇḍavapurāṇa, A. D. 1637.

Summary of Contents: The Pāṇḍavapurāṇa, more properly entitled the Mahābhārata, of Śubhacandra, pupil of Vijayakīrti, being a Jaina version of the Mahābhārata, written in the kāvya style, mainly in ślokas, in a. d. 1552.

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: iii + 210 + ii. Really 120, as ff. 1–91 are missing, while f. 116 is repeated.

Dimensions (binding): 30.8 × 14.9 cm.

Condition

ff. 1–91 are missing, and the MS. has suffered a good deal from abrasion.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī, Jaina style.

f. 210v: Serapuranagare śrīciṃtāmaṇi-(ciṃtº in a later hand)-caityālaye śrīmāhārādhirājamāhārājaśrī-vīṭhaladāsajīrājye śrīmūlasaṃghe Naṃdāṃnāyabalātkāragaṇe Śarasvatigache śrīkuṃdakuṃdācāryānvaye bhaṭārakaśrīcaṃdrakīrttidevā | tatpaṭṭe bhº-śrīdeveṃdrakīrttidevā | tatpaṭṭe bhº-śrīnareṃdrakīrtti | tadāmnāye khaṃḍe Lavālānveye | Bhosāgotre sāº Tejā tadbhāryā Tribhuvade tāyo putra sa Nākṣūtadbhāryā Holāde | tayo putrau dvau | prathama sāº Pṛthīrāja tasya bhāryā Pāṭamade tatputra Ciraṃlālacaṃda | dvitīya sāº Kalyāṇa tadbhāryā Karaṇāde | eteṣāṃ madhye Bahupāṭamade idaṃ Pāṃḍvpurāṇa bāīhariṣājogya liṣāi dattaṃ vratakalyārṇanīmati liºjodhā śubhaṃ | Sāº here is probably for sādhu, cf. Weber, Catal., II, 1015, and for the whole, ibid., p. 1028.

History

Origin: A. D. 1637.

f. 210v: saṃvat 1693 ⟨1637⟩ varṣe asvanimāse śuklapakṣe caturddaśītithau caṃdravāre revatīnakṣatre |

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 449).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:

Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1400, pp. 236-237

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. 1400, pp. 236-237

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