MS. Chandra Shum Shere c. 137
MSS. Chandra Shum Shere c.
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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 c.137(1)
Contents
BHĀGAVATA PURĀṆA: Sārasaṅgraha, with anonymous commentary by pupil of Srīdhara Svāmin. Sk. I only.
Language(s): Sanskrit
Physical Description
Support: Paper
Extent: 24 fols
Layout
4/10 lines
Hand(s)
Devanagari
MS.Chandra Shum Shere c.137(2)
Contents
BHĀGAVATA PURĀṆA, with commentary. Sk. Ii incomplete only
Language(s): Sanskrit
Physical Description
Support: Paper
Extent: 20 fols
Layout
8/10 lines
Hand(s)
Devanagari
MS.Chandra Shum Shere c.137(3)
Contents
ḄHĀGAVATA PURĀṆA, with commentary by Srīdhara Svāmin. Sk. III only.
Language(s): Sanskrit
Physical Description
Support: Paper
Extent: 145 fols
Layout
11 lines
Hand(s)
Jaina Devanagari
History
Origin: xvi cent.
Bibliography
Brockington, Epics and purāṇas, no. 331, p. 135
Gambier-Parry and Johnston, Index Catalogue of MSS. Chandra Shum Shere, fol. 171
MS.Chandra Shum Shere c.137(4)
Contents
BHĀGAVATA PURĀṆA, with Bhāvārthadīpikā by Srīdhara Svāmin. Sk. V only.
Language(s): Sanskrit
Physical Description
Support: Paper
Extent: 44 fols. (of which fol.1 is missing.) 11/
Layout
11/12 lines
Hand(s)
Devanagari
History
Origin: 1519
Bibliography
Brockington, Epics and purāṇas, no. 337, p. 136
Gambier-Parry and Johnston, Index Catalogue of MSS. Chandra Shum Shere, fol. 171
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Summary description abbreviated from the Bodleian Libraries' unpublished card catalogue for otherwise-undescribed manuscripts, available in the Charles Wendell David Reading Room.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. 415, p. 159; no. 331, p. 135; no. 337, p. 136