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MS. Sansk. d. 184

MSS. Sansk. d.

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Udayaprabhasūrī’s Ārambhasiddhi, 17th cent.?

Contents

Summary of Contents: The Ārambhasiddhi of Udayaprabhasūri, an astrological work, written apparently about a. d. 1230 under the patronage of Vāstupāla, the minister of Vīra Dhavala of Gurjara.

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: [1v] oṃ namaḥ | sakalāraṃbhasiddhinirvighnavedhase arhāṇām arhate sākṣād upālaṃbhāya Sambhave ǁ 1 ǁ
Explicit: [20v] ity Āraṃbhasiddhau śrīudayaprabhasūriviracitāyāṃ lagnaparīkṣā paṃcamo vimarśaḥ |

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: v + 20 + xxx
Dimensions (binding): 27.3 × 12.1 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī, Jaina style.

History

Origin: 17th cent.?

perhaps about a. d. 1650. Cf. MS. Sansk. d. 185 (1543).

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 279).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1541, p. 296

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. 1541, p. 296

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