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MS. Max Müller Memorial d. 19

MSS. Max Müller Memorial

Contents

Summary of Contents: A paper manuscript of the Tāṇḍya Brāhmaṇa, in 25 prapāṭhakas, nearly complete.
Ff. 1r-134v
Tāṇḍya Brāhmaṇa
Rubric: [1v1] oṃ namaḥ śrīgaṇeśāya || śrīsarasvātye namaḥ ||
Colophon: F. 134: svasti saṃvat 1548 varṣe pauṣavadi || [s]o me | adhyeha śrīvṛddhanagare vāstābhyantaranāgarajñātīyamahaṃ nṛsiṃhasūnunā rāṇākena pustakaṃ likhitam | yāval lavaṇasamudro yāvan nakṣatramaṇḍiyo meruḥ | yāvad bhāskaracandrau tāvad ayaṃ pustako jayatu || [...] somanāthasutūnāṃ kāka [?] śrīpati [prabhṛtānāṃ] paṭhanārthaṃ likhitaḥ |
Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Indian paper.

11 × 22.5 cm.

Extent: 134 ff.
Foliation: Devanāgarī numerals, bottom right margin, verso.
Foliation: Modern Arabic numerals in pencil, bottom left margin, recto.

Condition

The edges of the leaves are damaged but have been conserved.

Incomplete. The following folios are missing: Ff. 37, 53, 57, 85-86.

Hand(s)

Jaina Devanāgarī in black ink.

History

Origin: saṃvat 1548 / 1491 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

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card, for admissions procedures contact Bodleian Libraries' Admissions Office.

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. 23, p. 15.)

Funding of Cataloguing

Balliol-Bodley Scholarship