MS. Sansk. f. 15

MSS. Sansk. f.

Cāṇakya Rājanītiśāstra, 17th or 18th cent.?

Summary of Contents: A paper manuscript of the Cāṇakya Rājanītiśāstra, in eight adhyāyas, written in Śāradā script.

1. F. iv^v.

Unidentified stanza treating the syllable oṃ.

Language(s): Sanskrit.

2. F. 2^r-115^r (ff. 2^r-108^v and 110^v-116^r in original foliation).

Cāṇakya Rājanītiśāstra

Explicit: Ff. 114^v-115^r: pitā vivekaḥ svamatir janitrī svasāpy ahiṃsā dayitā dayaiva ǁ dharmaḥ sahāyas tanayā sukīrtiḥ sūnuḥ satāṃ dīnajanopakāraḥ ǁ 143 ǁ cāṇikyamāṇikyam idaṃ kaṇṭhe bibhrati ye budhāḥ ǁ grathitaṃ bhojarājena bhuvi taiḥ kiṃ na prāpyate ǁ 144 ǁ

Colophon: F. 115^r: iti śrīcāṇikye rājanīātiśāstre ’ṣṭamo ’dhyāyaḥ ǁ ǁ ǁ samāptaṃ cedaṃ rājanītiśāstraṃ samāptaṃ ǁ ǁ

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: iv + 116

Dimensions (binding): 9 × 14.5 cm.

Foliation: Śāradā numerals, bottom-left corner, verso.

Foliation: Library foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil, top-right corner, recto.

Foliation: Erroneous secondary library foliation Arabic numerals in pencil, top-right margin, recto.

Condition

Ff. 1 and 109 are missing.

Ff. 68–70, 108, 110 are slightly damaged.

Layout

6 lines on a folio.

Hand(s)

Śaradā script in black ink. Daṇḍas and occassional akṣaras in red ink. Corrections in yellow paste.

Additions: Occassional marginal notes in a different hand.

Abbreviated marginal title above the original foliation, bottom-left corner of the margin, verso.

Binding

Early 20th-century red textile binding over pasteboard, with shelfmark and description tooled in gold on the spine. The original paper wrapper with manuscript notes in pen bound as front end leaves. Kept in a cardboard library box.

History

Origin: 17th or 18th cent.?

‘17th or 18th century.’

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch.

Manuscript memorandum on original wrapper (f. ii) in red and black ink: ‘No. 81. K 26. Chaṇikya. ’

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:

Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1271, p. 183

Availability

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures contact Bodleian Admissions). Contact specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk for further information on the availability of this manuscript.

Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

Moriz Winternitz and Arthur Berriedale Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1905), no. 1271, p. 183

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