MS. Max Müller Memorial d. 20
MSS. Max Müller Memorial
Contents
Summary of Contents: A paper manuscript of the Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa in three aṣṭakas.
Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa Language(s): Sanskrit.
Physical Description
Form: pothī
Support: Indian paper.
11.5 × 24.7 cm.
Extent: 301 ff. First aṣṭaka: ff. 1-79. In second aṣṭaka, the leaves are numbered 77-121, 123-136, 138-181; with ff. 122 and 137 being omitted. Aṣṭaka 3 consists of four fragments: adhyāya 1-7, ff. 1-62; adhyāya 8 and a first few lines of adhyāya 9, ff. 1-19; the rest ofadhyāya 9, ff. 1-13; adhyāya 10, ff. 86-110.
Condition
Complete, in good condition. Written in several hands.
Hand(s)
Telugu in black ink. Accented in red ink (apart from adhyāya 8 which is not accented).
History
Origin: / 19th century. Not dated, but modern. Nepal.
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. 25, p. 16.)Funding of Cataloguing
Balliol-Bodley Scholarship