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MS. Sansk. d. 121

MSS. Sansk. d.

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Dakṣiṇāmūrti’s Bījakośoddhāra, 19th cent.?

Contents

Summary of Contents: The Bījakośoddhāra, ascribed to Dakṣināmūrti, being a short Tantric treatise, explaining the mystic value of certain combinations of letters, such as śrīṃ, hrīṃ, kliṃ, roṃ, sauḥ, oṃ, &c

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: ǁ śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ | vījakośaḥ lakṣmīḥ padmā hariṇākṣī saroruhanivāsinī kamalā rukmiṇī biṣṇoḥ kāṃtā śrīṃ vījam īritaṃ śrīṃ parābhūtis tathā lajjā māyāpi sakalā kṛśā samastāpi tathā śyāmā hrīṃ vijaṃ samudāhṛtaṃ hrīṃ | &c.
Explicit: vṛṣṭivījaṃ ca vārṣikaḥ varṣopalas tu karakā krūṃ vījaṃ samudāhṛtaṃ krūṃ iti Dakṣiṇa (sic) mūrttikṛto Bījakośoddhāraḥ samāptaḥ ǁ 1 ǁ

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: ii + 3 + xxv
Dimensions (binding): 29.5 × 14.0 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

History

Origin: 19th cent.?

probably about a. d. 1830 or 1840.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 164).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1472, p. 271

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. 1472, p. 271

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