MS Chandra Shum Shere d. 391

MSS. Chandra Shum Shere d.

Summary of Contents: A previously uncatalogued paper manuscript of the Mṛcchakaṭikā by Śūdraka.

Ff. 3^v-85^v [ff. 1^v-82^v in original foliation.]

Śūdraka , Mṛcchakaṭikā

Labelled ‘Mṛcchakaṭakaṃ’ in the explicit.

Rubric: F. 3^v [f. 1^v in original foliation]: śrī gopālakṛṣṇāya namaḥ ||

Incipit: F. 3^v [f. 1^v in original foliation]: paryaṃkagraṃthivaṃdha dviguṇitabhujagāśleṣasaṃvītajānoraṃtaḥ prāṇāvarodha vyuparatasakalajñānaruddheṃndriyasā |

Explicit: F. 85^r [f. 82^r in original foliation]: samāptaṃ mrcchakaṭakaṃ nāma nāṭakaṃ ||

Final rubric: F. 85^r [f. 82^r in original foliation]: śrī gopālakṛṣṇāya namaḥ ||

Colophon: F. 85^r [f. 82^r in original foliation]: avevīdnakhavājibhūmigaṇiteśrīkārtrikasyādimepasenāgadinenapāvamṛgabhevāretavaḥ kaulave || śrīmanmṛcchakaṭābhivaṃashṛdapānaṃdapradaṃnāṭakaṃ vyalīravīdhvariśaṃ karoti nikṛtṛkātsatyaritaprītaye || || śrīr astu ||

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: ii + 83 + ii.

Dimensions (leaf): 10 × 22 cm.

Dimensions (binding): 12 × 24 cm.

Foliation: Devanāgarī numerals, top-left and bottom-right margin, verso.

Foliation: Arabic numerals in pencil, bottom-right corner, recto (added by Thomas Gambier-Parry); this foliation starts with the first flyleaf).

Condition

In good condition.

F. 22 marked twice in original foliation (f. 24 and 25 of library foliation). The ink of f. 25 (f. 22 in original foliation) is smeared, with a loss of many akṣaras.

Layout

10 lines on a folio.

The written area is framed on each side by four thin marginal lines in black ink.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī in black ink. Highlighted in red powder, corrections in yellow paste.

Additions:

Abbreviated marginal title, top-left corner of the margin, verso.

On f. 3^r (f. 1^r in original foliation), various notes in three different Devanāgarī hands (including the sole hand of the manuscript) and different-coloured inks.

On f. 85^v (f. 82^v in original foliation), a note written in a different Devanāgarī hand: on the top "saṃkhyā 2025". The bottom note is almost completely crossed apart from the very end which reads "nārāyaṇasyaṃ".

Binding

Early 20th-century brown textile binding over pasteboard, with shelfmark and description tooled in gold on the spine. Cardboard cover box.

History

Origin: Not dated.

Provenance and Acquisition

Donated by Mahārāja Chandra Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana in 1909.

Record Sources

Description by Barbora Sojkova, based on observation of the manuscript.

Other descriptions:

Thomas Gambier-Parry and E. H. Johnston, Index Catalogue of MSS. Chandra Shum Shere, fol. 205r.

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

The cataloguing of this item was made possible through a benefaction from the late John P. Clay, founder and benefactor of the Clay Sanskrit Library.