Amarakocha traduit en Tibétain extrait du Tandjour
St Petersburg: n.p., 1856. Hardcover. Very good. Item #24519 .
Folio. Manuscript of the Amarakocha exquisitely penned by Lama Galsang Gamboïeff from the Tibetan edition of Tandjour owned by the Department Asiatique in St, Petersburg. The manuscript is paginated according to the French Sanskrit edition of the Amarakocha published paper boards and endpapers. Upper hinge cracked but strong, hinges, edges, and corners worn, so the binding is in only good condition, but the manuscript is fine.
The Amarakocha is a thesaurus in Sanskrit attributed to Indian scholar Amarasimha in the 5th century, though some place him in the 9th century. It is one of the earliest extant Sanskrit lexicons and still used as one of the major sources of Sanskrit grammar.
The Tanjur is the Commentary section of the Buddhist Canon Tritiaka, and contains many books on grammar.
The translator was Galsan Gomboyev (Gamboïeff) (1822-1863), a professor at the Institute of Oriental Studies in Saint Petersburg.
Price: $2,500.00