History of Nepal
- Type
- Descriptive catalogue
- Languages
- Newari, Sanskrit
- Collections
- University of Cambridge. Library
- Online
- No online copy known
- Sources
- Attested in:
- Biswas 1998 no. 0207
Description (Biswas 1998)
Reprint. Originally published 1877. Appendix IX: Rough list of my collection of Sanskrit manuscripts nos. 864-1459. p. 316-320. These mss. were procured in Nepal by Mr. Wright for the Cambridge University Library. Still unnumbered 3 + 26 mss. (p. 323-324) "Other mss. purchased by me in Nepal are in the collection of the British Museum, the German Oriental society at Halle, the University Library of Berlin, the University Library of St. Petersburg and the library of the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg. The whole number of these is however, comparatively small." - D.W. (p. 316). "The work translated is the Vansavali or geneological history of Nepal, according to Buddhist recension. The original mss. written in Parbatiya with an admixture of Sanskrit and Newari, is in the possession of professor Cowell"- Preface.
From S. C. Biswas, Bibliographic Survey of Indian Manuscript Catalogues (Delhi, 1998), no. 0207, as printed; OCR text, may contain errors.