Notices of Sanskrit Manuscripts
by Rajendralala Mitra | 1871 | 921,688 words
These pages represent a detailed description of Sanskrit manuscripts housed in various libraries and collections around the world. Each notice typically includes the physical characteristics, provenance, script, and sometimes even summaries of the content of the Sanskrit manuscripts. The collection helps preserve and make accessible the vast herit...
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65 No. 1105. sabdaratnavalih | Substance, country-made yellow paper, 16 X 4 inches. Folia, 106. Lines, 10 on a page. Extent, 5631 slokas. Character, Bengali. Date, ? Place of deposit, Navadvipa, Harinatha Tarkasiddhanta. Appearance, old and decayed. Verse. Generally correct. Sabdaratnarali. A Dictionary of the Sanskrit Language. By Mathures 'a. The work was compiled under the auspices of Murchha Khan. It follows the plan of the Amarakosha. The following is Professor Wilson's account of this work: "The Sabda Ratnavali is the compilation of Mathures 'a, one of the commentators on the Amara Kosha, and follows that work in arrangement, and contents. It is chiefly useful for its introduction of various readings amongst the synonymes, but has made very little addition of any other kind. This work was composed, according to a date in the text, in Saka 1588, or A. D. 1666, and under the patronage of a Musselman chief whose name, as written in the manuscripts, appears to be Marchha Khan. It should be more probably Musa Khan, a name common amongst the Musselman chiefs of the seventeenth century." Essays III, p. 107. Beginning. vande sadanandamayam samantaj jyotih param brahma bhavadisevyam | dhyanaikagamyam jagadekaramyam yadicchaya karanakaryabhavah || K asit ksmatalamandale ntapakulaih samsevitah sriyutai- rbhupalah sitamanakhana iti yah kirttipratapejjvalah | yaddoindapratapacandahanaih kalpantasuryaprabhaih pratyarthiksitipalaka ranabhuvi ksobhakulah serate || tasyaiva jagadekaviratanajah khyato jaganmandale murcchakhanamahipatih sthiramatirvangaikarangotsavah | diptairdvadasabhumipaiscirataram tiksnamsacandaprabhaih sridhatapratidesapalanavidhau samsevyamano'bhavat || etasmadajani pratapamihirah satkirttisitadyutih dine +++ bhupatih sumahimah sriramadevah svayam | murcchikhanamaranandatra (?)ntapatih sriman mahimandalam sasti dvadasabhumipaih punaridam bhrubhangamatraih ksitau ||