MS. Sansk. f. 12
MSS. Sansk. f.
NOTE: This record has yet to be fully checked.
Vālmīki’s Rāmāyaṇa (I, 1), Amarakośa, &c., end of 17th cent.?
Contents
Language(s): Sanskrit.
1. [fols. 1-57]
The first Sarga of the Bālakāṇḍa of Vālmīki’s Rāmāyaṇa
Incipit: śrīsītārāmārppaṇaṃ | śubham astu | śrīsarasvateṃ nnamaḥ | śrīsītārāmalakṣma-ṇabharataśatṛghnahanumatsametāya namaḥ ǁ &c.
2. [fols. 58-62v]
a list of numerals in some (Telugu?) dialect, and in figures
Incipit: yākayakaṃyakka 111 yākabiyyaṃbeṃnna 122 yākatiyyaṃtiṃnna 133 | &c.
3. [fols. 63-64]
The names of the years of the sixty-year cycle of Jupiter (Bṛhaspatisaṃvatsaracakra); the names of the week-days or vāras
4. [fols. 65-115]
The Nāmaliṅgānuśāsana, by Amarasiṃha, vargas 1–4 of kāṇḍa 1, and beginning of kāṇḍa 2 (2, i, 1–15).
Incipit: śubham astu śrīsarasvateṃ nnamaḥ | Amaśiṃhvaṃ | yasya jñānadayāśiṃddo | ragādhasyaṃnnakhā guṇāḥ | sevyatām akṣayo dhirā | ssa śrīyai camṛtāya ca | samāhṛtyānyataṃtrāṇi | saṃkṣiptaiḥ pratisaṃskṛtaiḥ | saṃpūrnnam utacyate varggai | rnnāmaliṃggānuśāsanaṃ | &c.
Physical Description
Form: pothī
Support: Palm-leaves, held together by a string going through one hole.
Extent: ii + 192
Dimensions (binding): × cm.
Hand(s)
Telugu.
History
Origin: 17th cent.?
appearance quite modern.
Provenance and Acquisition
Record Sources
Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1096 (1–4), pp. 115-116
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. 1096 (1–4), pp. 115-116
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