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MS. Max Müller Memorial d. 9

MSS. Max Müller Memorial

Contents

Summary of Contents: A paper manuscript of Ṛgveda Prātiśākhya, sometimes attributed to Śaunaka. At the end, there are 18 verses and a short prose, forming a short commentary Varṇakramalakṣaṇa, written by Jaggannātha.
Śaunaka , Ṛgveda Prātiśākhya
Explicit: f. 49v: iti prātiśākhye tṛtīyādhyāyasya ṣaṣṭaṃ ā[dh]aṃ tasya aṣṭādaśaṃ paṭalaṃ ||
Language(s): Sanskrit.
Class: mūla
Jaggannātha , Varṇakramalakṣaṇa
Incipit: f. 49v: momeśādīn prapāmyāday jagannāthena sadgurūn || ṛgvedārṇakrama jñānavyākhyā saṃtanyate [']dhunā ||
Explicit: f. 51r-51v: iti śrīmaj jagannātha viracitaṃ varṇākramalakṣaṇaṃ samāptaṃ ||
Colophon: f. 52r: saṃvat 1877 śake 1742 kharanāme saṃvatsare udagayane śiśir ṛtau māghaśukla paurṇi[mā] bhṛguvāsare tad dinīdaṃ pustakaṃ goḷavalakaropanāmaka rāmacaṃdrātmajaciṃtāmaneṇa likhitaṃ svārthaṃ parārthaṃ ca || iti pustakaṃ samāptaṃ ||
Language(s): Sanskrit.
Class: commentary

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Indian paper.

9 × 23.3 cm.

Extent: 54 ff.
Foliation: Devanāgarī numerals, top left margin and bottom right margin, verso.

Condition

Complete, in good condition.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī in black ink, highlights and word-divisions in red ink. Scribe: Cintāmana

History

Origin: Vikrama 1877 / Śaka 1742 / 1820 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. 8, p. 6-7.)

Funding of Cataloguing

Balliol-Bodley Scholarship