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MS. Max Müller Memorial d. 4-5

MSS. Max Müller Memorial

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Summary of Contents: A composite paper manuscript of the Ṛgveda in the padapāṭha text. Complete in eight aṣṭakas, with each aṣṭaka being originally a separate manuscript, individually foliated. Now bound in two volumes: aṣṭaka 1-4 and 5-8. At the end, it includes a single leaf of the Śanistotra, nine verses in praise of the planet Saturn.
1. ff. 1r-91v in original foliation.
Ṛgvedapadapāṭha, Aṣṭaka 1.
Language(s): Sanskrit.
Colophon: f. 91v: ity upanāmakasapre Kāśīnāthabhaṭṭasūta Nārāyaraṇa likhitam || likhitam.
2. ff. 1r-92v in original foliation.
Ṛgvedapadapāṭha, Aṣṭaka 2.
Colophon: f. 92r: saṃvat 1811 tāraṇanāma saṃvatsare vaiśākhe māse kṛṣṇapakṣe aṣṭamī ravau [...] ||
3. ff. 1r-79v in original foliation.
Ṛgvedapadapāṭha, Aṣṭaka 3.
Language(s): Sanskrit.
Colophon: f. 79r: saṃvat 1811 tāraṇanāma saṃvatsare āśvīnakṛṣṇa guruvāsara ekādaśyāṃ [...] ||
4. ff. 1r-92v in original foliation.
Ṛgvedapadapāṭha, Aṣṭaka 4.
Language(s): Sanskrit.
Colophon: f. 92r: saṃvat 1811 tāraṇanāma saṃvatsare māghaśukla saptamī ravau tad dine kāśyaṃ likhitam ||
5. ff. 1r-86v in original foliation.
Ṛgvedapadapāṭha, Aṣṭaka 5.
Language(s): Sanskrit.
Colophon: f. 86r: saṃvat 1812 pārthīva saṃvatsare vaiśākha kṛṣṇa 30 bhṛguvāra tad dine kāśyaṃ likhitaṃ ||
6. ff. 1r-86v in original foliation.
Ṛgvedapadapāṭha, Aṣṭaka 6.
Language(s): Sanskrit.
Colophon: f. 86r: saṃvat 1814 sarvajīta saṃvatsare || phālgunaśukla aṣṭamī bhṛguvāsara tad dine likhitaṃ ||
7. ff. 1r-86v in original foliation.
Ṛgvedapadapāṭha, Aṣṭaka 7.
Language(s): Sanskrit.
Colophon: f. 86r: saṃvat 1815 sarvadhārīnāma saṃvatsare māghakṛṣṇa amāvāsyā ravivāra tad dine kāśyāṃ viśveśvara saṃnidhau likhitam ||
8. ff. 1r-91v in original foliation.
Ṛgvedapadapāṭha, Aṣṭaka 8.
Language(s): Sanskrit.
Colophon: f. 91r: saṃvat 1821 manmatha saṃvatsare pauṣaśuddha pratipadā ravivāra||
9. f. 22 in original foliation.
Śanistotra
Language(s): Sanskrit.
Incipit: f. 22r: śrī | śanistotra prārambhaḥ | koṇāṃtakorudrayamodababhrukṛṣṇaḥ śanipiṅgala mandasaurī |

Physical Description

A composite manuscript consisting of 9 codicological units.
Form: pothī
Support: Indian paper.

9.5 × 23 cm.

Extent: 705 ff.
Foliation: Devanāgarī numerals, top left and mid-right margin, verso.

Condition

Complete, in good condition. A few corrections made by the original or by a closely similar hand.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī in black and red ink. Scribe: Nārāyaṇa

Binding

Modern Western binding.

History

Origin: Vikrama 1811-1821. / 1754-1764 CE.

Aṣṭaka 1 not dated. Aṣṭakas 2, 3, and 4 dated to saṃvat 1811. Aṣṭaka 5 saṃvat 1812, aṣṭaka 6 saṃvat 1814, aṣṭaka 7 saṃvat 1815, and aṣṭaka 8 saṃvat 1821. Śanistotra not dated.

Vārāṇasī

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. 3, p. 4-5.)

Funding of Cataloguing

Balliol-Bodley Scholarship