MS. Max Müller Memorial d. 8
MSS. Max Müller Memorial
Contents
Summary of Contents: A paper manuscript of the eighth aṣṭaka of the Ṛgveda in a padapāṭha text.
ff. 1r-94v
Ṛgvedapadapāṭha, Aṣṭaka 8 Language(s): Sanskrit.
Physical Description
Form: pothī
Support: Indian Paper.
10.1 × 25.4 cm.
Extent: 94 ff.
Condition
Complete, in good condition. A few edges torn and mended.
F. 22 (wrongly numbered 20) written by a more modern hand, and ff. 23-27 by a third hand, but older, and in the characteristic Jaina style.
Hand(s)
Devanāgarī with Jaina characteristic features, in black ink. Scribe: Keśava
(f. 94v: "adyeha śri rāmacandrarājye dvi° srīdharasuta dvi° keśavena padapustikā likhitā")
History
Origin: Vikrama 1491 / 1434 CE.
Provenance and Acquisition
Purchased by Macdonell, Arthur Anthony Arthur Anthony Macdonell in 1907.
Record Sources
Description by Barbora Sojkova, based on observation of the manuscript and existing descriptions.
Availability
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Bibliography
Descriptions of the manuscript
A Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts Purchased for the Administrators of the Max Müller Memorial Fund, Gambier-Parry, T. R. (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1922, no. 6, p. 5-6.)Funding of Cataloguing
Balliol-Bodley Scholarship