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Bardic and Historical Survey of Rajputana . N /. m ' " ' — ~-r«<.f> iiiiilJUiHfcUA INUIUA; V p R I /I .\ J. .\ L- ij r\..r\' PUBLISHED BY TH .10 SOCIETY OF BlD^NUiil - 1 1 1 -I ii ^OFTPTTVE CATALOOUl^ ij SECTION, . Prose Chronic I < PART 1 fodh. SIRWiUJAMjU. i^Sl MDCCXLVi -MDCCXCW BY "?• ASCK ALCirr SOCIETY IW 4 LIST OF BOOKS FOR SALE AT THE LIBRARY OF THE y\sii\TlC ^OCIETY OF JBeNGA No. 1, PARK STREET, OAI.OUTTA, AND OBTAINABLE FROM The Society's Agent— Mr. BBUNAUD QUAtllTOlI, 11, Grafton Street^ New Bond Street, Lond Complete copies of those ivovJcs marked with an asterisk * cannot he eupplied— some of the Fascicuh being out of stock, BIBLIQTHECA INPTOA- Sauskrit Series, Advaitaohiuta KHuetubhn, Faso. 1-3 @ /lO/ each ... Ra. 1 14 Aitareya Brail Vol. I, Faao. 1-5; Vol. II, mana, Faso. 1-^ j Vol. Ill, Faao. 1-5, Vol. TV, Fnao. 1-8 @ /!(>/ eaoli ... ... 14 Aifcareyalooana ... ... ... ,„ .„ 2 Amarakosha, Faso. 1-2 ... ... ... .,, ... 4 1-3 Anumana Didhiti Prasarini, Fasc. @ /lO/ ... ,,, ... 1 14 Ajtaslhasrika PrajnSparamita, iTaso. 1 6 @ /lO/ each ... 3 12 Atmatattvaviveka, Faso. 1-2 ... .,, ,,, ,,, 1 4 A9vavaidyaka, Faso. 1-5 (§ /lO/ eaoh ... .,, .„ 3 2 Avadana Kalpalata, (Sans, and Tilietau) Vol. 1, Fasc. 1-11. Vol. II, 1-11 .. Faso. @ 1/ eaoli ... ... ... 22 Balani Bliatti, Vol. I, Fasc. 1-2, Faso. Vol. 11, I, @ /lO/ eaoh ... 1 U Baudhayana Kraiita Sutra, Fuse. 1-3; Vol. IT, Faso. 1-5 ; Vol. Ill, Faso. /lO/ 1, @ each ... ... ... ... ... 6 10 Bhasavritty ... ... ... .,, _,, 10 Bhatta DTpika, Vol. T, ir, Faso, 1-6; Vol. Faso. 1-2 (g /lO/ eaoh ... 5 Banddhastotrasangraha ... ... ... ,,, 2 Brhaddevata, Faao. 1-4 /lO/ eaoli .. ... @ ,][ 2 S Brhaddhanna Parana, FuHO. 1-6 /lO/ @ eaoh ... ... 3 12 Bodhioaryavatara of 9antidevft, Faso. 1-7 /lO/ @ eaoh ,,. 4 (5 Ori Cantinatha Oliarita, 1-4. Faso. ... ... ... .,, 2 3 Patadufani, Faso. 1-2 '".'. @ /lO/ each ... ... 1 4 Catalogue .'.*.' of Sanskrit Books and MSS., Faso. 1-4 @ 2/ each 8 •Cntapatha Brihmana, Vol. I, Faao. 1-7; Vol. IT, Faso. 1-5; Vol. NT, Faso. 1-7 Vol. 1-4 ; V, Faso, @ /lO/ eaoh ... 11 6 Ditto VI, Vol. Faso. 1-3 @ 1/4/ each ... ... 3 2 Ditto Vol. Vn, Faso, 1-5 @ /lO/ ... .32 Ditto Vol. IX, Faso, 1-2 ... ... ... 1 4 yatasahasriks-prajnaparamita, Part T, Faso. 1-18, Part II, Fasc. 1. @/10/eaoh ... ... ... ... ..; 11 j4 Oatnrvarga Chiutama^i, Vol. II, Faso. 1-25 ; Vol. Ill, Part I» Faso. 1-18, Part TT, Faso. I-IO Vol. ; IV, Faso. 1-6 @ /lO/ eaoh 36 1 Ditto Vol. IV, rt^ Faso. 7, 1/4/ eaoh ... 1 4 Ditto Vol. IV, Faso. 8-lb @/10/ ... ... 1 14 giokavartika (English), Faso. 1-7 @ 1/4/ each ... ... 8 12 •Pranta Sfitra of gankhaya-na, Vol. I, Faso. 1-7 ; Vol. II, Faso. 1-i"; Vol. Ill, Faso. 1-4 ; Vol. 1 4, Faso. @ /lO/ eaoh ... 10 9ri Bhashyain, Faso, 1-3 @ JlOJ eaoh ... ... ... 1 14 Dana Kriya Kaumndi, Faao. 1-2 .'.'* @ /lO/ each ... ... 1 4 Gadadhara Paddhati '*.' Kalaaara, Vol. 1, Faso. 1-7 @ /lO/ eaoh 4 6 Ditto Aoarasora, "* Vol. II, Faso. 1-4 ... ... 3 2 GohhilTya Grhya Sfitra, Vol. .'.*] I, @ /lO/ eaoh ... ... 3 2 I^i"o Vol. II, Faao, 1-2 @ 1/4 /each [',[ 2 8 ^'*'*° (Appendix) Gobhila Parisista 1.1- ,., . 2 Gobhihyan Grhya Sutra, Grihya Sang rah a ... .,,'0 ... '" 10 Uaralata ... » .,. _.^ ^^^ *'* ',' '" 14 Karmapradiph, Faso. 1 ... j 4 '.',' '" Kala Viveka, Faso. 1-7 @/lO/ each .'.'.* 4 """ 6 Katantra, Faso. l-r> (« /12/eaoh ... '" 4 8 Kavi Kalpa Lata, Faso. 1 ..* ... ... q jq Kavindravacana Samuoeayah " ... ... ... 3 8 Kurma Parana, '.'.* ".' *" Faso. 1—9 (2 /lO/ each 5 10 Kiranavali, '" Faso, 1-3, /lO/ ... 1 @ "* 14 Madana P«rij»ta, '.'.'. Faao l-ll @ /lO/ each !." 6 14 Maha-hha«ya-pradipodyota, Vol. I, Faao. 1-9 j Vol. II, Faso. 1-12 ; Voh^TT, Faso. r.-.. l-10@/10/ each ... ...19 6 Ditto Vol. IV, Faso. 1-3^^4 each ... ... ... 3 12 Maitra or Maitrayaniya Upanishad, Faso. 1 ... ... ... 10 Manntika Saygraha, B'aso. 1-3 @ /lO/ eaoh ... 1 14 ^ <'^"*<"«''> »^'^«« »-9 •/- each i..' Mnad'l,!?^') V*'?" C^ ... 9 ^y^k^»-a"a. Vol. I, Faso 1-7, /lO/ eaoh ... ... 4 N rukta,inUf!^9 li" @ 6 (2nd edition) Vol. I. Faso. 1-2, @R^ 1.4 ... ... 2 8 N.tySojrapaddlmti, Faao. 1-7 @/10/ each ... 4 6 ^i;:^^ZS'\Z± \^^-?J:'lJ^' ". ^-- '' « l^^l each ... 7 _8 : BIBLIOTIIECA INDICA: A Collection of Oriental Works PUBLISHED BY THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL New Series, No. 1409. BARDIC AND HISTORICAL SURVEY OF RAJPUTANA. A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OP BARDIC AND HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS. SECTION I: Prose Chronicles. PART I: Jodhpur State. SIRWILUAMjONES MDCCXLVI'MDCCXCIV BY Dr. L. p. TESSITORT. FASCICULUS I. CALCUTTA PRINTED AT THE BAPTIST MISSION PRESS, AND PUBLISHED BY THE ASIATIC SOCIETY, 1, PARK STREET. 1917. z — Under the general title of " Prose Chronicles," the present section of the Descriptive Catalogue of Bardic and Historical Manuscripts includes all kinds of works in prose, such as those meant by the Marwari terms khyata, vata, vigata, vamsdvali, pidhts and similar ones, all of which partake more or less of an historical character. Bardic poems and songs, as well as works on non-historical subjects, when found interspersed in the same manuscripts, have also been described, though much more cur sorily. In quoting extracts, preference has often been given to passages containing dates, figures, names, etc., or supplying some new information. The importance of this section of the Descriptive Catalogue Ms increased by the fact that the works described in it form the richest source of information available in connection with the mediaeval history of Rajputana, and one of the scopes of the present Catalogue is to collect and classify all such materials which to this day have mostly remained scattered and ignored so as to make identification and reference possible and easy. Almost the generality of these works being anonymous and titleless, the number under which they are registered in the present Catalogue will enable one easily to cite them in any work of historical research that may be compiled in future. L. P. T. Jodhpur, August 1915. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2007 with funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation http://www.archive.org/details/bardichistoricalOOtessuoft — — A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF BARDIC AND HISTORICAL MSS. MS. I :—tIi25RT ^TrT • A MS. coQsisting of 262 sheets of paper, folded in the middle and bound so as to form a book of 524 leaves and 1048 pages. Each page measures 9J to 6 inches, and contains from 15 to 17 lines of about 10 to 13 aksaras. On both sides of the writing there is a narrow margin, on which, at the left, the mere word T^iT is written. The MS. originally numbered only 193 sheets, i.e. 386 leaves, of which only 315 were written, apparently by the same hand. Subsequently the remaining leaves were also filled with writing and 69 sheets, making 138 new leaves, were inserted in the middle between the two leaves of sheet 193, thereby cutting the original MS. in the middle and causing an interruption in the coitext. The insertion of these new leaves has been dissimulated by continuing in them the progressive numeration of the first 193 leaves. The MS., as it stands now, consists therefore of the parts following : {a) The original "^^K '^'T, being a collection of miscel- laneous notes on historical subjects, compiled at about the time of maharaja Abhe Singha of Jodhpur, who is mentioned in leaf 416, or shortly afterwards. Like all khydtas, it is in prose, but all sentences are numbered and the progressive numeration goes from 1 to [2]293. It is a curious zibaldone of summary informations on the most different subjects, given one after the other without any order, probably as they occurred to the mind of the writer, or as he came across them in reading or conversation. A few extracts will best help one to get an idea of the nature of the collection : ^^fft^TS irr^ II ^>JI1^ W3T^m^ ^ TA^K ^TJ^ \ II ^ HT ^^^ ^\^^\ ^mj^ "it^ ^^ ^'f^ ^^t^^ ii ^ ii ^tctw ^rtcft Jim Htirftf^^ ^ ^^^ ^ ^^ri^ f^Tin t jj^ ^T^15^T ^ ^T^ ^5T^T^^ ^cft II II ?:criiftfg^ ^ ^qftm^ft [ ] jjsi c?tTi ^T^rf%^i ^ 'j^^o f^xy^i II ^HftN^ II ft"^T^rcf ^ — — A Descriptive Catalogue of Bardic and Historical MSSA ^fhr ^xji f^nT 5^ ^^r ^^ % II io\ n gw^cr [ ^t] ^m § ^tI %>;tct fsr^if ^ le^r § ^^t^ % ii ^•'J^ ii ^ft^ ^t fTITJct II ... Jtmtt ^^ ^t <«»< II H^KT^ 3CT5!ftrgwt t 1?H ... etc. pR^T^JI^ 5(f^ ^T^T ^ify^ [^] II ^^^ il The collection ends : s^«S.\ JT^IT ^cT^tW % II [r] II ^^ ^IcT^ $ ^T^^ ^t ^T^^ t ^* ^cT T?rT^^ II R'LP, ^fif ?Tt^ t ^ ^T^^ ^t ^^ M II ^^ t^tW^^ Ii ^T ir^^ift^ [s^l^ii^ II (6) A continuation of the same ^^^j: THTfT, written on the 69 sheets inserted in the middle of the book. This is also made on the same lines as the former, and is at least posterior to Samvat 1825, which seems to be the most recent date men- tioned in it. About 25 leaves in the middle are left blank, on the margin of each there being mentioned the subject for which they were reserved, namely: fM^f^d, K\m\, ^TKJ^, t^ff, t^, ^, ifm, i^^'^TT, ^HTT^. At page 209a and S. there is a long list of names of Caranas, grouped under their different khupa^,. Page 236a gives the following summary account of the Jain philo- sophy : ^^cT $«T II %W 'm^^ ^ ^TTRT ftcftcT S H ^% || \x\ Wl.
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