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MS. Wilson 451

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Sāma-veda Brāhmaṇas, Śāṅkhāyana Brāhmaṇa, Pāraskara Gṛhya Sūtra, &c., A. D. 1743, 1724, 1499.

Contents

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: i + 187 + i
Dimensions (binding): 25.7 × 14.0 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

for 1–5 the scribe was Nandakeśvara.

For 6 no name is given.

For 7 and 8 the name is given on f. 187v, but much has been erased: adyeha śrīvṛddhanagare mahaṃrāṇākena likhitaṃ |

History

Origin: A. D. 1743, 1724, 1499.

for 1–5 the date appears on f. 86v: saṃvat 1799 (= a. d. 1743, not 1723 as stated in Bodl. catal., p. 382a) māghavadi somavāº ekāº |

For 6 on f. 156v: saṃvat 1780 ⟨1724⟩ samaye phālgunakṛṣṇapakṣe tṛtīyāṃ tithau bhṛguvāsare |

For 7 and 8 on fol. 187v: saṃvat 1555 ⟨1499⟩ varṣe vaiśāṣaśudina 9 navamī śukle |

Provenance and Acquisition

written in red ink on f. 66v appear these words: tr ºgoviṃdarāmasyedaṃ pustakaṃ | This note (compare f. 86v) doubtless applies to 1–6. Perhaps too his was the hand that marked off the clauses in 6. Finally on f. 187v appears in red ink a note, of which only the following words are legible: saṃvat 1630 ⟨1574⟩ varṣe śrāvaṇaśudi 6 … | Possibly all these notices, except the last, refer to one man. The last may refer to the date on which some owner, whose name is illegible, had the MS.

The collection of Horace Hayman Wilson was purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1842.

MS. Wilson 451(1) [fols 1v-7]

Contents

Summary of Contents: The Saṃhitopaniṣad Brāhmaṇa, being the fourth book of the Talavakāra- or Jaimanīya Brāhmaṇa of the Sāma-veda.

Language(s): Sanskrit

MS. Wilson 451(2) [fols 8v-12]

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The Devatādhyāya Brāhmaṇa of the Sāma-veda.

Language(s): Sanskrit

MS. Wilson 451(3) [fols 13v-16v]

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The Vaṃśa Brāhmaṇa of the Sāma-veda.

Language(s): Sanskrit

MS. Wilson 451(4) [fols 17v-66v]

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The Ṣaḍvimśa Brāhmaṇa, being a supplement to the Tāṇḍya or Pañcavimśa Brāhmaṇa of the Sāma-veda.

Language(s): Sanskrit

MS. Wilson 451(5) [fols 67v-86v]

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The Ārṣeya Brāhmaṇa of the Sāma-veda.

Language(s): Sanskrit

MS. Wilson 451(6) [fols 87v]

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The Śāṅkhāyana Brāhmaṇa, Books I to IV.

Language(s): Sanskrit

MS. Wilson 451(7) [fols 157v]

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Pāraskara Gṛhya Sūtra, being the Gṛhya Sūtra of the White Yajur-veda.

Language(s): Sanskrit

MS. Wilson 451(8a) [fols 183v-187]

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Vedavratānāṃ or Māla-vidhi, one of a body of eighteen pariśiṣṭas of the White Yajur-veda.

Language(s): Sanskrit

Explicit: iti Kātyāyanapraṇītāṣṭādaśapariśiṣṭo vedavratānāṃ vidhiḥ |

MS. Wilson 451(8b) [fols 187-187v]

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The Dharmajijñāsā, also one of the eighteen pariśiṣṭas attributed to Kātyāyana

Language(s): Sanskrit

Incipit: athāto dharmajijñāsā | keśāntād ūrddhvam apatnīka utsannāgnir agniko vā pravāsī brahmacārī vā tv agnir iti grāmāgnim āhṛtya pṛṣṭo divīty adhiṣṭhāpya tribhiś ca sāvitraiḥ prajvalya, & c. |

Additional Information

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 861 (1–8), p. 6

Availability

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Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    Moriz Winternitz and Arthur Berriedale Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1905), no. 861 (1–8), p. 6

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