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
Brockington, Epics and purāṇas, no. 171, pp. 67-68
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Summary description abbreviated from the Bodleian Libraries' unpublished card catalogue for otherwise-undescribed manuscripts, available in the Charles Wendell David Reading Room.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
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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. 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