MS. Max Müller Memorial e. 2

MSS. Max Müller Memorial

Summary of Contents: A paper manuscript of the Vājasaneyī Prātiśākhya by Kātyāyana, containing only the sūtras.

ff. 1r-25v

Kātyāyana , Vājasaneyī Prātiśākhya

Colophon: F. 25. śubham idaṃ pustakaṃ sāṭhe ity upanāma viśvanāthabhaṭṭena likhitam śake 1769 plavaṅga saṃvatsare pauṣa śu° 2

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Indian paper.

11 × 20 cm.

Extent: 25 ff.

Foliation: Devanāgarī numerals, mid-right margin, verso.

Foliation: Devanāgarī numerals, top left margin, verso.

Foliation: Modern Arabic numerals in pencil, botto right margin, recto.

Condition

Complete, in good condition.

Occassional corrections in different hand.

Layout

Description of the layout: 7 lines per page, approximately 40 akṣaras per line.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī in black ink, highlighted in red powder. Scribe: Viśvanātha Bhaṭṭa

History

Origin: Śake 1769 / 1847 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. 19, p. 12.)

Funding of Cataloguing

Balliol-Bodley Scholarship