MS. Ind. Inst. Sansk. 75 (R)

MSS. Ind. Inst. Sansk.

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Kālidāsa’s Kumārasaṃbhava, A. D. 1588, 1659.

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Indian paper.

Extent:

Dimensions (binding): 27.3 × 11.1 cm.

Hand(s)

Jaina Devanāgarī.

(1) for that of sargas I–VII, see f. 28: oṃ namaḥ Khatataragacehanabhomaṇivanarītaharṣavarddhanaśrīśrīmanūha | (2) for that of sarga VIII, see f. 32: śrīkharataragacche bhaṭṭārakaśrījiaahittasūriśāṣāyāṃ Śahijahārājye | Presumably this refers to Shāh Jahān, in the last year of whose reign it must have been written (A. D. 1658: the conventional equation of the saṃvat date is of course wrong).

History

Origin: 1659.

(1) for that of sargas I-VII, see f. 28: saṃvat 1644 (=A. D. 1588) varṣe vaiśāṣavadi 30 bhaumadiae | (2) for that of sarga VIII, see f. 32: saṃvat 1715 (=A. D. 1659) varṣe aśviniśudi 15 |

Provenance and Acquisition

Presented by the Rev. S. C. Malan in January, 1885.

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:

Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit and Prākrit MSS in the Indian Institute Library, no. 127, pp. 69-70

Availability

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Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

Arthur Berriedale Keith, A Catalogue of the Sanskrit and Prākrit MSS. in the Indian Institute Library Oxford (Oxford, 1903), no. 127, pp. 69-70

Funding of Cataloguing

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