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MS. Sansk. d. 138

MSS. Sansk. d.

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Gokuladeva’s Tīrthakalpalatā, A. D. 1746.

Contents

Summary of Contents: The Tīrthakalpalatā of Gokuladeva, the Gayāvidhi portion, being a manual of rules conceming pilgrimage to the famous tīrtha at Bodhi Gayā

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: [1v] śrīvakratuṃḍāya (?) namaḥ | śrīgopālakṛṣṇāya namaḥ | śrīreṇukādevyai namaḥ | Yadunāthapadāmhojadhyānasamsaktamānasaṃ | sarvaśāstravivaktāraṃ śrīmantaṃ pitaraṃ numaḥ ǁ atha Gayāśrāddhaṃ |
Explicit: [16] iti śrīsakalabhūmaṇḍalamaṇḍanāya-mānavidvadvaryā Anaṃtadevātmcjagokuladevakṛtatīrthakalpalatāyāṃ Gayāvidhiḥ samāptaḥ

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: + +
Dimensions (binding): 30.2 × 14.3 cm.

Condition

f. 13 is missing.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

the writing of ff. 1–6 is so different from that of ff. 7 to the end, that probably the MS. is the work of two scribes.

History

Origin: A. D. 1746.

f. 16: saṃvat srīrā 1802 ⟨1746⟩ | The other hand must be of about the same period.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 200).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1515, p. 287

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. 1515, p. 287

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