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MS. Sansk. d. 299

MSS. Sansk. d.

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Vijayagaṇi’s Pāṇḍavacaritra, 17th cent.?

Contents

Summary of Contents: The Pāṇḍavacaritra of Vijayagani, being a narrative of the war of the Pāṇḍavas and their history, in the kāvya style, written under Vijayasenasūri, head of the Tapāgaccha, a. d. 1548–1615

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: [1v] oṃ namaḥ paramātmane | oṃ namo vṛṣabhasvāmi | yogine paramātmane | kāriṇe śivasaukhyasya viśvasthitividhāyine ǁ 1 ǁ parabrahmasvarūpāya | jagadanaṃdadayine | śrīyugādijineśāya | parāya parameṣṭhine ǁ 2 ǁ yugmaṃ | sa śrīśāntijino jīyāt | bhavyānāṃ bhuvi śāṃtikṛt | matvā mṛgo jagattrāṇaṃ | sevate lāṃchanachalāt ǁ 3 ǁ śrīnemiḥ śreyase bhūyāt Yaduvaṃśaśiromaṇiḥ | vāṃchitārthaprado loke | kalpaśākhīva dehināṃ ǁ 4 ǁ Pārśvanāthaḥ sa vaḥ pāyān nīlavarṇṇatanudyutiḥ | phaṇabhṛnmaṇirukśobhī | meghāvad vidyutāśrītaḥ ǁ 5 ǁ Varddhamanaṃ jinaṃ naumi | varddhamānaguṇotkaraṃ | śrīsiddhārthakulākāśavikāśananabhomaniṃ ǁ 6 ǁ natvā śrībhāratīṃ devīṃ | tathā śrīmadguruṃ nijaṃ | caritraṃ Pāṇḍaputrāṇāṃ | Ikṣvākukulajanmanāṃ ǁ 7 ǁ uddhṛtyānyacaritrebhyaḥ | gadyabaṃdhena ruṃdaraṃ | karomy ātmavinodāya | tatha karmmakṣayāya ca ǁ 8 ǁ yvgmaṃ | asmin Jaṃbudvīpe Bharatakṣetre srīṛṣabhadevasya śatam āsau sutās | teṣv ekaḥ Kurunāmāsīt | tannāmnākhyātam kṣetraṃ | Kurukṣetraṃ |

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper
Extent: iii + 235 + ii. Really 232, as ff. 89, 117 are passed over, and f. 86 is lost.
Dimensions (binding): 27.3 × 14.9 cm.

Condition

f. 86 is lost, and the end is missing.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī, Jaina style.

History

Origin: 17th cent.?

probably about a. d. 1650–1700.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 448).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1402, p. 238

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. 1402, p. 238

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