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MS. Ind. Inst. Sansk. 57

MSS. Ind. Inst. Sansk.

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Rāmabhadradīkṣita’s Jānakīpariṇaya, A. D. 1883.

Contents

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: [p. 1, where he tells us his art was hereditary and that he wrote this to give his talent vent. See p. 4, verse 7] yāsya stauti matiṃ manīṣisadasi śrīnīlakaṃthādvarī | Kauṃdā jyotiṣikaś ca yasya kurute saṃmānam āryaiḥ samaṃ | yatrānugrahadṛṣṭim arpayati ca śrībālakṛṣṇo guruḥ | so ’yaṃ dīvyati Cokkanāthamakhināmakritadāsaḥ kaviḥ ǁ 7 ǁ

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: European paper.
Extent: 272
Dimensions (binding): 22.9 × 15.6 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

History

Origin: 1883.

p. 272: saṃvat 1889 śake 1755(=A. D. 1855) vyaº jyeṣṭamāṣe śuklapakṣe caturthyāṃ gu-ruvāsare | likhitam idaṃ pustakaṃ |

Provenance and Acquisition

Presented by Major J. S. Law in August, 1885.

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit and Prākrit MSS in the Indian Institute Library, no. 148, pp. 81-82

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. 148, pp. 81-82

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