MS. Chandra Shum Shere b. 42
MSS. Chandra Shum Shere b.
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Physical Description
Form: pothī
Support: paper
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Donated by Mahārāja Chandra Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana in 1909.
MS.Chandra Shum Shere b.42(1)
Contents
BRAHMAGĪTĀ, from the Yajñavaibhavakhaṇḍa of the Sūrasaṃhitā of the Skanda Purāṇa.
Language(s): Sanskrit
Physical Description
Support: Paper
Extent: 134 fols
Layout
10 lines
Hand(s)
Devanagari
History
Origin: 1807
Bibliography
Brockington, Epics and purāṇas, no. 562, p. 201
Gambier-Parry and Johnston, Index Catalogue of MSS. Chandra Shum Shere, fol. 161
MS.Chandra Shum Shere b.42(2)
Contents
HARIṠCANDROPĀKHYĀNA, from the Padma Purāṇa.
Language(s): Sanskrit
Physical Description
Support: Paper
Extent: 30 fols
Layout
13 lines
Hand(s)
Devanagari
History
Origin: 1671
Bibliography
Brockington, Epics and purāṇas, no. 824, p. 277
MS.Chandra Shum Shere b.42(3)
Contents
DEVĪMĀHĀTMYA, from the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa (called here Safrtasatī). With commentary 'Nepali bhasa tika'
Language(s): Sanskrit
Physical Description
Support: Paper
Extent: 46 fols
Layout
16 lines
Hand(s)
Devanagari
Bibliography
Brockington, Epics and purāṇas, no. 454, p. 171
Gambier-Parry and Johnston, Index Catalogue of MSS. Chandra Shum Shere, fol. 111
Additional Information
Record Sources
Summary description abbreviated from the Bodleian Libraries' unpublished card catalogue for otherwise-undescribed manuscripts, available in the Charles Wendell David Reading Room.
Availability
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Bibliography
Printed descriptions:
John Brockington, A descriptive catalogue of the Sanskrit and other Indian manuscripts of the Chandra Shum Shere collection in the Bodleian Library, Part II: Epics and Purāṇas, Jonathan Katz (editor), (Oxford, 1999), no. 562, p. 201; no. 824, p. 277; no. 454, p. 171