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[South Indian Sanskrit MS 200, Sanskrit MS 16] Kadambapurīmāhātmya


Kadambapurīmāhātmya

Language – Sanskrit

Date – [1800?]
Palm leaf; 6 lines on a folio. Manuscript consists of the Kadambapurīmāhātmya of the Brahmanāradasaṃvāda of the Pūrvakhaṇḍa of the Brahmāṇḍa-Purāṇa. F. W. Thomas, in the Winternitz catalogue entry, notes that it is the same work as RAS South Indian Sanskrit MS 199 / Sanskrit MS 15, from which it is copied, which is proved by its displaying the same numerous small gaps, and in one or two small points (e.g. 6a, 1.4 = 3a, 1.2, 9a, 1.6 = 4a, 1.8) making corrections. In this MS. the chapters end on f.3a, 5b, 9b, 13b, 16b, 22a. On the outside of the first folio is a statement of the contents in Tamil, and on the outside of the last folio is written in a European hand ‘D Kadambapuri Mâhâtmya’. South Indian Sanskrit / Sanskrit manuscript Collection. See ’A catalogue of South Indian Sanskrit manuscripts (especially those of the Whish Collection) belonging to the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland’ by M. Winternitz, with an appendix by F. W. Thomas (London: RAS, 1902) p.271. Go to http://tinyurl.com/j3tkdwj for a digital copy of this catalogue. Provenance unknown. Text in Sanskrit; Grantha script, clear and well written.