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MS. Chandra Shum Shere c. 82

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.82(1)

Contents

VĀLMĪKI: Rāmāyaṇa. Bāla Kāṇḍa only

Language(s): Sanskrit

Physical Description

Support: Paper
Extent: 55 fols

Layout

14 lines

Hand(s)

Devanagari

History

Origin: 1771

Bibliography

    Brockington, Epics and purāṇas, no. 158, p. 63
    Gambier-Parry and Johnston, Index Catalogue of MSS. Chandra Shum Shere, fol. 224

MS.Chandra Shum Shere c.82(2)

Contents

VĀLMĪKI: Rāmāyaṇa, with commentary by Maheśvara Tīrtha. Ayoshya Kāṇḍa only. Incomplete

Language(s): Sanskrit

Physical Description

Support: Paper
Extent: 89 fols

Layout

10/12 lines

Hand(s)

Devanagari

Bibliography

MS.Chandra Shum Shere c.82(3)

Contents

VĀLMĪKI: Rāmāyaṇa. Sundara Kāṇḍa only.

Language(s): Sanskrit

Physical Description

Support: Paper
Extent: 121 fols. (of which fol. 1 is missing).

Layout

11 lines

Hand(s)

Devanagari

History

Origin: 1801

Bibliography

    Brockington, Epics and purāṇas, no. 173, p. 68
    Gambier-Parry and Johnston, Index Catalogue of MSS. Chandra Shum Shere, fol. 224

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Summary description abbreviated from the Bodleian Libraries' unpublished card catalogue for otherwise-undescribed manuscripts, available in the Charles Wendell David Reading Room.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

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures contact Bodleian Admissions). Contact specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk for further information on the availability of this manuscript.

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. 158, p. 63; no. 171, pp. 67-68; no. 173, p. 68

    Other descriptions:

    Thomas Gambier-Parry and E. H. Johnston, Index Catalogue of MSS. Chandra Shum Shere, fol. 224