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MS. Sansk. d. 90

MSS. Sansk. d.

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Bāṇa’s Harṣacarita, &c., 17th cent.?

Contents

Language(s): Sanskrit.

1. [fols. 4-210v]

The Harṣacarita, in eight ucchvāsas, by Bāṇa Bhaṭṭa (ff.4–210v). The beginning and end are missing.

Incipit: ttilagnamṛṇālasūtrām iva dhavalayajñopavītinīṃ | &c.
2. [fols. 211-212v]

the Paṅkoddharaṇāṣṭaka, in eight verses, by a poet whose name begins with Rājā, followed by four other verses by the same poet.

3. [fols. 213-227]

fragments taken out of the original binding. Most of these seem to belong to some astronomical work dealing with calculations of dates. The fragments, ff. 216, 219, 221, 222, 224, 225, 227, belong to one and the same work.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper (partly of the colour of birch bark).
Extent: ii + 227 + iv. Ff. 1–3 in the original foliation are missing.
Dimensions (binding): 26.0 × 17.8 cm.

Condition

seriously damaged, ff. 13, 14, 84, 97, 118, 211, 213–227; slightly damaged, ff. 4–9, 18, 75, 100, 180, 192–194, 207, 208.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī in black ink.

History

Origin: 17th cent.?

the MS. seems to have been written towards the end of the 17th century, probably after a. d. 1666, since in the fragments taken out of the cover the following dates occur, viz. on f. 221, and again on f. 224v: oṃ saṃvat 42 śākāḥ 1588 (= a. d. 1666), and on f. 223: oṃ saṃvat 1760 śāke 1525 (= a. d. 1603) caitramāse ’sitapakṣe &c.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 123).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1524 (1–3), pp. 289-290

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. 1524 (1–3), pp. 289-290

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