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MS. Chandra Shum Shere e. 171

MSS. Chandra Shum Shere e.

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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 e.171(1)

Contents

DEVĪMĀHĀTMYA, from the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa.

Language(s): Sanskrit

Physical Description

Support: Paper
Extent: 100 fols

Layout

4 lines

Hand(s)

Bengali

Bibliography

    Brockington, Epics and purāṇas, no. 438, p. 166
    Gambier-Parry and Johnston, Index Catalogue of MSS. Chandra Shum Shere, fol. 111

MS.Chandra Shum Shere e.171(2)

Contents

DEVĪMĀHĀTMYA, from the Markaṇḍeya Purāṇa. A frgment.

Language(s): Sanskrit

Physical Description

Support: Paper
Extent: 14 fols

Layout

5 lines

Hand(s)

Bengali

Bibliography

    Brockington, Epics and purāṇas, no. 440, p. 166
    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Summary description abbreviated from the Bodleian Libraries' unpublished card catalogue for otherwise-undescribed manuscripts, available in the Charles Wendell David Reading Room.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

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. 438, p. 166; no. 440, p. 166

    Other descriptions:

    Thomas Gambier-Parry and E. H. Johnston, Index Catalogue of MSS. Chandra Shum Shere, fol. 111