Hindi and Rajasthani MSS

[Richard Lariviere]

Dom--
Is there a Saiva connection with any of these mss.?
Richard

On Mon, 31 Jan 1994, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:

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>         PETER G FRIEDLANDER,
>         Cataloguer of Hindi manuscripts
>         Wellcome Institute
>         London.
>         Date: Mon, 31 Jan 94
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>         To: ALLEN W THRASHER
>         RE: HINDI AND RAJASTANI MSS ID (24 JAN 94)
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> Hello, regarding the manuscripts you mention  I believe they are all quite
> obscure and a quick check indicates that none of these works or their
> authors are in the Nagari Pracarini Sabha survey of Hindi manuscripts.
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> However, I have a comment regarding the work called Koka-bhusana by Josi
> Jagananatha in the second manuscript.  The Wellcome collection contains a
> copy of a medical work by an author of the same name which was copied in AD
> 1747.  As the subject of Koka might also have been a topic written on by an
> author of a medical work it is possible they are by the same author.  I can
> find no references to this author anywhere apart from in our manuscript.
> >From the viewpoint of the history of Indian Koka sastra/medicine this might
> well be an interesting manuscript.
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> Hope this is of some interest.
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