{ "viewingDirection": "left-to-right", "metadata": [ { "label": "Provenance", "value": "Bought from Robert E. Stolper in 1990-91." }, { "label": "Extent", "value": "188 ff. (including one flyleaf inserted at the end of the manuscript)." }, { "label": "Funding", "value": "AHRC" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "18th-19th century." }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "MS Or.2380" }, { "label": "Donor(s)", "value": "Stolper, Robert E." }, { "label": "Additions", "value": "
On the final flyleaf<\/a>, notes in Malayāḷam script. <\/div><\/div>

Marginalia<\/b><\/p>

The invocation śrī<\/i> is written in the mid-left margin of the recto of the first folio.<\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Subject(s)", "value": "Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Mīmāṃsā" }, { "label": "Associated Name(s)", "value": "Kumārila Bhaṭṭa; Jñānaśrīmitra; Ratnakīrti; K. Sāmbaśiva Śāstrī" }, { "label": "Format", "value": "Tālapatra" }, { "label": "Data Source(s)", "value": "Direct inspection." }, { "label": "Language(s)", "value": "Sanskrit." }, { "label": "Author(s)", "value": "Sucarita Miśra" }, { "label": "Binding", "value": "

Wood cover, original binding.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Condition", "value": "Complete, in mediocre condition. Some folios are much damaged, others partly blackened, but the text is otherwise clearly readable." }, { "label": "Script", "value": "

Malayāḷam, incised, in black ink.<\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Excerpts", "value": "
Rubric:<\/b> [1r1]<\/a>[<\/i>-2-<\/i>]<\/i> śrīgaṇapataye namaḥ avighnam astu<\/div>
Incipit:<\/b> [1r1]<\/a> vārttikāraṃbhe śiṣṭācāram anuvi[<\/i>-19-<\/i>]<\/i>[1r2]śuddhajñānadehāyeti, dṛṣṭā hi śiṣṭānāṃ pravṛttis sarvakāryeṣu maṃgalapūrvikā, maṃgalañ ca devatāstutinamaskārā[1r3]di, asya ca niyogataḥ [<\/i>-1-<\/i>]<\/i>◎lavat_kāryāntarāraṃbhasaṃyogāt_ sākṣād aphalatvāc ca phalavatsannidhāv aphalan ta[1r4]daṃgam iti nyāyena kā[<\/i>-1-<\/i>]<\/i>◎āntarāraṃbhaśeṣatve vadhṛte saty āraṃbhasya samāptiparyantatvād apekṣit[1r5]ā vighnaparisamāptiḥ <\/div>
Explicit:<\/b> [186v4]<\/a> pā◎ramārtthikī ca yuktir upariṣṭād vakṣyate sūtra[<\/i>-8-<\/i>]<\/i>[186v5]māṇayuktyadhikam eva ◎ tatprāmāṇyasaṃbhāvanāmātram abhihitaṃ saṃbhā[<\/i>-8-<\/i>]<\/i>[186v6]kṣo hetunā sādhya◎te na tv asaṃbhāvitaḥ iti svābhiprāyeṇāpi[<\/i>-8-<\/i>]<\/i><\/div>
Final Rubric:<\/b> [186v7]<\/a> ity upādhy[<\/i>-3-<\/i>]<\/i>caritamiśrakṛtau kāśikābhidhāyāṃ parī[<\/i>ṣṭi<\/i>]<\/i>[<\/i>-9-<\/i>]<\/i><\/div>" }, { "label": "Physical Location", "value": "Cambridge University Library" }, { "label": "Abstract", "value": "

A South Indian manuscript of the Kāśikā<\/i> by Sucarita Miśra, one of the most valuable commentaries on Kumārila Bhaṭṭa\u2019s Ślokavārttika<\/i>. Although Sucarita is often believed to have lived in the 12th century (Mishra 1964: 34; Verpoorten 1987: 38), his mention as the \u201cauthor of the Kāśikā<\/i>\u201d (kāśikākāra<\/i>) by the Buddhist philosophers Jñānaśrīmitra and Ratnakīrti (both active in the first half of the 11th century) rather suggests an earlier date, perhaps in the 10th century (thanks to Kei Kataoka for this information). The portion of the text covered by the manuscript (ad Mīmāṃsāsūtra<\/i> 1.1.1-1.1.3) has been published only once by K. Sāmbaśiva Śāstrī (Trivandrum, 1926), who himself acknowledges in his preface the slender and defective manuscript basis on which his edition was prepared (four manuscripts from Kerala, all incomplete and much decayed). It is uncertain whether the present manuscript originally contained other portions of Sucarita's commentary as well. <\/p>" }, { "label": "Title", "value": "Kāśikā" }, { "label": "Author(s) of the Record", "value": "Hugo David., CUDL PID Workflow" }, { "label": "Material", "value": "Palm leaf.

Folio height: 5.2 cm, width: 36.8 cm. <\/p>" }, { "label": "Layout", "value": "Written area height: ca. 4.1 cm, width: ca. 32.1 cm.

8 or 9 lines per page, approximately 51 akṣara<\/i>s per line.<\/p> Akṣara height: 3 mm. Interlinear space height: 2 mm. Two string holes, each in the middle of a square blank space (the left one is slightly bigger). String hole spaces height: 2-3 cm, width: 2.5 cm, depth: 15.5 cm." }, { "label": "Date of Acquisition", "value": "August-September 1992 (Handlist)." }, { "label": "Foliation", "value": "

1. Original: Malayāḷam letter numbers, mid-left margin, recto (1-186 starting from f. 2; no number on the first folio).<\/p>" }, { "label": "Bibliography", "value": "

Descriptions of the manuscript<\/b><\/p>

List of Oriental MSS. Class Catalogue of Oriental MSS. [unpublished manuscript]<\/i> (Cambridge: 1900\u2013).<\/div><\/div>

Manuscripts<\/b><\/p>

CC vol. 2, p. 677. <\/div><\/div>

Edition<\/b><\/p>

Sucarita Miśra, The Mīmāṃsāślokavārtika with the commentary Kāśikā of Sucaritamiśra (Part 1).<\/i>, ed. K. Sāmbaśiva Śāstrī [1st ], Trivandrum Sanskrit Series 90 (Trivandrum: Government Press, 1926).<\/div><\/div>

Secondary literature<\/b><\/p>

CC = Aufrecht, Theodor, Catalogus Catalogorum. An Alphabetical Register of Sanskrit Works and Authors<\/i> (Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1891).<\/div>
Mishra, Umesha, \"Critical bibliography\u201d; appendix in Jha, Ganganatha, Pūrva-Mīmāṃsā in its sources.<\/i> (Benares: Benares Hindu University, 1964).<\/div>
Verpoorten, Jean-Marie, Mīmāṃsā Literature<\/i>, A History of Indian Literature, vol. 6, fasc. 5 (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1987).<\/div><\/div>
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