A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit and Other Indian Manuscripts of the Chandra Shum Shere Collection in the Bodleian Library (Catalogue Chandra Shum Shere) (Paperback)

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The arrival in 1909 of the library of manuscripts now known as the Chandra Shum Shere collection made Oxford the repository of the largest known collection of Sanskrit manuscripts outside the Indian subcontinent. This third volume of the catalogue of the collection contains descriptive entries for over five hundred manuscripts of Sanskrit hymnic and devotional poems from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century.