MS. Sansk. f. 18

MSS. Sansk. f.

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Cakrapāṇi’s Vijayakalpalatā, 19th cent.?

The Vijayakalpalatā of Cakrapāni, a treatise on astrology

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: [4] oṃ śrī oṃ atha dinacaryyām āha | oṃ janmarāśau janmalagne dinacaryāgattaṃ phalam |

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: ii + 20 + xxi. Originallyfoliated as 1–17, ff. 1–3 being blank and unnumbered.

Dimensions (binding): 14.0 × 22.9 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

History

Origin: 19th cent.?

quite modern in appearance, about the middle of the 19th century. Cf. MS. Sansk. d. 194 (1593).

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 330).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:

Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1587, p. 311

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. 1587, p. 311

Funding of Cataloguing

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