Catalogue of two collections of Sanskrit manuscripts preserved in the India office library / compiled by Charles H. Tawney, and F.W. Thomas.

  • Great Britain. India Office. Library.
Date:
1903
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Credit: Catalogue of two collections of Sanskrit manuscripts preserved in the India office library / compiled by Charles H. Tawney, and F.W. Thomas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ce GRAMMAR. GRAMMAR. No. V. W. 41 (A). Siddhantakaumudi by Bhattoji Dikshita. Parts I. and LI., or Purvardha and Uttarardha. Incomplete. ee I., Foll. 219. The number of lines in a page varies from 9 fo +12: Fair Devanagari writing of A.D. 1751, on Indian paper. Tolerably correct. Leaf 12 has been turned upside down in binding. Size Cmm. 27 x 10, 3. Colophon :—Iti Sri Bhattoji-Dikshita-viracitayam Siddhanta-kaumu- dyam ptrvardham sampirnam. Samvat 1808, Sake 1673 Pau- shamasi krishnapakshe dvitiya Sanivasare pustakam idam Kasi- nathena(le)khi. Subham astu! Part II., Foll. 108 + 1-71 + 19-€l. 10 to 13 lines in a page. Fair Devanagari writing of A.D. 1787, on Indian paper. Size Cmm. 25, 2 x 10,5. Tolerably correct. In this part 108 leaves bring us to the end of the tinanta. Leaf 5 has been reversed in binding, and leaf 91 is repeated. Then 7] leaves bring us to the end of the kridanta. In the last fragment the Svaraprakriya begins on leaf 19a, and the work is completed on 616. The Vaidikaprakriya is omitted, owing, no doubt, to the loss of 18 leaves. In this part of the MS. the same leaf is numbered 22 and 28. Date Samvat 1844, Saka i709. No. VI. W. 41 (B). The same work, Part I. only. Foll. 184 (leaf 177 being repeated). The number of lines in a page varies from 10 to 13. Fair Devanagari writing, on Indian paper. Size Cmm. 25,5 x10, 5. Fairly correct. This is, as Wilkins points out, a duplicate of the Par vardha. Wilkins included this and the preceding MS. as 41. No. VII. W. 39. Sarasvatavyakarana, by Anubhitisvartipacarya. Foll. 49-91. Fol. 55 is also marked 56. ‘The number of lines in a page varies very much. The first leaf has eleven lines on a page. ‘Tolerable Devanagari writing, on Indian paper. Size Cmm. 25 x11, 5. This MS. is not very correctly written, and the arrangement ditters ‘much from that of the Bombay edition of 1890. It contains the Uttarardha of the Sarasvata grammar, from the beginning of the section on verbs to the end. Begins :-— Athakhyataprakriya nirtpyate. Ends :— Svaripanto Anubhutadih(sic) sabde’bhiid yatra sarthakah, sa maskari Subham cakre prakriyam caturocitam. A 2