A paper manuscript of the Pañcaratnagītā of the Bhagavadgītā, written in Śāradāscript. The last section of the manuscript contains two further texts, the Gopālakavacaand theṣ Kuṣmāṇḍamantra.
MS. Chandra Shum Shere g. 26
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
A paper manuscript of the Pañcaratnagītā of the Bhagavadgītā, written in Śāradāscript. The last section of the manuscript contains two further texts, the Gopālakavacaand theṣ Kuṣmāṇḍamantra.
Shelfmark
MS. Chandra Shum Shere g. 26
Language
Sanskrit
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Paper. Some leaves are brown, reddish, or purplish in colour. 11 12
Physical extent
110 ff.
Hands
Śāradā in black ink. Daṇḍas in red, but in white or brown on reddish leaves.
Decoration
Illustrated with various miniatures within the text on several folia: Lotus on ff. 13r, 14r, 14v, 29r, and 90r; Kṛṣṇa on ff. 29v, 46v, 52r, 57v,63r, 67r, 70v, 80r, 87v, 93r, 94v, and 105r; and other anthropomorphic scenes on ff. 74r and 102r.
Binding
Early 20th-century brown textilebinding over pasteboard, with shelfmark and description tooled in gold on the spine. Cardboard cover box.
Provenance
Donated by Shum Shere, Chandra Mahārāja Chandra Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana in 1909.
Subject
Itihāsa
Manuscripts, Sanskrit
Gītā
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Connections
People associated with this object
- Shum Shere, Chandra Mahārāja Chandra Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana
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Gambier-Parry, T. R., (Thomas Robert), 1883-1935
