[RAS Hodgson MS 66] Prayogamukham

language : Sanskrit
date : [1800?]
Paper; 6 or 7 lines on each page. Text on the philosophy of grammar. It begins: vijñātasakalajñeyamuttīrṇabhavasāgaraṃ | praṇamya sugataṃ samyagucyate śabdaśāsanaṃ || Text is in 5 paṭalas: the Kāraka ends f.14v; the Samāsa f.25r; the Taddhita f.37r; the Tiṅ f.42r (which is missing); the Kṛt f.48r. Text ends: kārakapaṭala [samāsa] paṭalataddhitapaṭalatatiṅpaṭalakṛtpaṭala iti paṃca paṭalā niyamitāḥ || iti prayogamukhaḥ samāptaḥ || – || śrīmāndevasaṃskāritaḥ śrīvajrācāryavīradattadeveṇa riṣitaṃ || Cowell and Eggeling note that the text is incomplete at the end and that the title is given on the wrapper only. Manuscript acquired by Hodgson in Nepal. See p. 45 in Cowell, E. B. and Eggeling, J. ‘Catalogue of Buddhist Sanskrit manuscripts in the possession of the Royal Asiatic Society (Hodgson Collection)’, published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1875, Pt. 1, pp.1-56. Brian Houghton Hodgson, gift, 1835-6. Text in Sanskrit. Digitizing sponsor: Byoma Kusuma Buddhadharma Sangha