Bibliographic Survey of Indian Manuscript Catalogues

Author(s): Subhash C Bishwas, M K Prajapati
Publisher: Eastern Book Linkers

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Pt. II Handbook of prescriptions - navanitaka or cream (Plates VI
XXXIV) Pt.III Fragments of manual of prescriptions (plates XXXV
XXXVIIa). Pts.IV-V Two short manual of pasaka - kevali or cubomany (Plates
XXXVIIb - XLVIII). Pts. VI-VII Two different portions of the same text. Sutra or dharani
referring to a charm protective against snakebite and other evils. The sutra is known as Mahāmayurī vidyārañjant (plates
XLIX - LIV). The Bower manuscript is named after its discoverer H. Bower who found these near Kuchar or Kucha (Eastern Turkestan) in 1890. It is a collection of seven distinct mss. or collective ms. in seven pts. It contains 54 birch bark leaves; important portion of it pts. I-III, which deals with medicine is incomplete. The language is Sanskrit and written in Gupta script during 4th century A.D.
Reprint. Originally published: Calcutta. 1893-1912. Location: ASB, BUL, CSL, DCPRI, IGNCA, NL, OSM(3).
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Brhattippanikanamapracinajainagranthasūci.
In: Jaina Sahitya Samsodhaka - parisista, 1(2), 1-16. Classified list of 653 mss., with date and number of folios. Location: SM.
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Brussels. Bibliotheque Royale Albert
List of 12 Indic manuscripts (4 Sanskrit, 3 Tamil, 2 Pali, 1 Gujarati, 1 Panjabi and 1 Bengali) available in the Bibliotheque Royale Albert./[List was supplied by Marguerite Debae May 1989.)
Unpublished. Location: CSL.
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Budapest. Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Tibetan books and manuscripts of Alexander Csoma de Koros in the library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest.
In: Bibliotheca Orientalis Hungariea.V.
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Buddha Gaya. Buddha Gaya Library
Buddha Gaya Library in A.D. 1922. Calcutta: Simla: Thacker, Spink and Co., 1925. 47 p.
Location: NL.