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MS. Sansk. d. 133

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Madanapāla’s Madanapārijāta, 15th or 16 th cent.?

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The Madanapārijāta, by Madanapāla, in nine stavakas

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Birch bark.
Extent: + +
Dimensions (binding): 19.7 × 23.8 cm.

Condition

the MS. was in a decaying state, fragments of the injured leaves had to be collected from all parts of the volume to be joined to the leaves to which they belonged; nearly all the leaves have had to be protected and overlaid with transparent paper. The smaller fragments, the proper place of which could not be found, are put together on ff. 288–298 and numbered 1–232. Readers of the MS. will, no doubt, succeed in identifying the place of some of them. About half of each of ff. 1–19 is lost; only fragments are left of ff. 61, 213–222, 231, 250–252, 260, 261. More seriously damaged are ff. 80, 187v, 191, 210–212, 228–230, 248, 249, 253–259, 262–268. Ff. 121 and 151 were mended while the MS. was still in India, and a few lines were supplied by a modern hand.

Hand(s)

Śāradā.

History

Origin: 15th or 16th cent.?

on f. 284 we find the following: oṃ saṃvat 95 āṣāḍhaśuti dvādaśāṃ maleścharājyaṃ naśati ǁ vrahmarājyaṃ bhaviṣyati ǁ tacā tasminte deṣe ǁ na ha maleścho na ca rākhimaḥ ǁ jyaṃnāprapaddhitā sarve ǁ vipro rājā bhaviṣyati ǁ This date of the Saptarṣi era ⟨284⟩ is supplied by a modern hand. The older part was probably written in the 15th or 16th century.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 186). Memorandum on f. iii,’K 58,’ i. e. Kaśmīr.

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1490, pp. 278-279

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. 1490, pp. 278-279

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