A descriptive catalogue of the Hindi manuscripts in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine / by Peter Friedlander.

  • Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. Library.
Date:
1996
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Credit: A descriptive catalogue of the Hindi manuscripts in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine / by Peter Friedlander. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Work: A neat complete copy of this work. It consists of 782 stanzas, mostly in the dohä and caupäl metres. It was composed in the town of Sàrangapura in Marwar in the year Samvat 1583 (AD 1526). It is about the conquest of Devagiri by Alauddin Khalji (AD 1296-1316). 620 Shelf mark: MS Hindi.421; ff. 8 (1—8); size: 11 x 26 cm; loose folios, brittle buff paper; 15 lines of 21 cm per page; text and headings in black ink, red pigment over headings, margins in black ink; neat Jain Devanagari; complete; copied in Ahipura-, dated Samvat 1711, Caicra ({madhu}), krsna, 1, Thursday ({kujaväsa}) (1654). Rúpacandra-mañjanI by Rüpacandra Rsi Begins: Il co It sfttawWII 3TRÏÏIïït^TII ïïpfoÊFpRïRtl TSTI T^^fÎSïïtRIl?!! ïïRT #^1^FT^R ïï 1 ? I V CN CN CN VD vo WU ïï^^fTOIRII Ends: TFT W'i f II TTÌ II ïï°Tt ïïil ^ I ^ ïï? ïïlfê f TFÍt I citali TRI t'I^II Colophon: ^ÏÏFÎTII 3 ^11 ^fcf ^ ïïj MÎTTÏÏ°fII ^RI^5 j TTFTïïft^ ÏÏI^ cFRT tfcFR fàqt || Author: Rüpacandra Rsi (active c. AD 1642) was a Jain author. The NPS reports also indicate that the works Jñ änaka lyà n a ka, Tapakalyànaka, Pañcakalyanaka and Vinti were composed by an author called Rüpacanda Jana, who may be the same author. [NPS 1964 II: p. 330.] Work: A fair complete copy of this work. It is an anthology of Jain hymns. It consists of 324 stanzas ( gäthä ) divided into 11 ragas. It was composed in Samvat 1699 (AD 1642) in the town of Akavarapura. The date of copying of the manuscript is given in the form of a chronogram as dharä (1) rüdra (1) muni (7) candra (1), i.e. Samvat 1711 (AD 1654). 621 Shelf mark: MS Indic.ß 650 (i); ff. 4 [la—4a]; size: 11 x 26 cm; loose folios; 18 lines of 22 cm per page; text in black ink, headings and margins in red ink; neat Jain Devanagari; complete; copied by Kisana Kamvari; copied in Agra (Agra, Agra district, Uttar Pradesh); undated, 18th century. Nomo mañgala by Läla Begins: limoli 3PT ïft Tf TO II 3RÌ *R^Fïïîi ^TI qfàçr Wr*TT3i?tfil apft Tí ^RTT %í I ^TT3¡ flfll