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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit and Other Indian Manuscripts of the Chandra Shum Shere Collection in the Bodleian Library: Part III. Stotras
Bodleian Library
Jonathan Katz
Kota Parameswara Aithal
David Pingree
出版
Clarendon Press
, 1999-09-09
主題
Art / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General
Art / Asian / General
Art / Indigenous Art of the Americas
Foreign Language Study / Ancient Languages
Literary Collections / Asian / Indic
Literary Collections / Essays
Reference / Bibliographies & Indexes
Religion / General
ISBN
0199513880
9780199513888
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=zT_gAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
This third volume of the catalogue contains descriptive entries for over five hundred manuscripts of Sanskrit hymnic and devotional poems, running to nearly seven hundred separate compositions in manuscripts running from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. This important genre of classical Indian literature is valuable not only for its intrinsic poetic and aesthetic merits but also as a vital source of information for the history of Indian religion and its numerous traditions and affiliations. The collection includes works of famous devotional poets and philosophers as well as nearly two hundred compositions whose authors are unknown including some for which there are no other known available manuscripts in any other libraries. Professor Aithal is an internationally renowned expert in the field, and his descriptions include details of scribal and palaeographic features; his useful introduction outlines the literary genre and the principles of its classification.