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MS. Wilson 388

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Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇa, Drāhyāyaṇa Sūtra, Snānadīpikā, A. D. 1454, 17th cent., 1796.

Contents

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: ii + 132 + ii
Dimensions (binding): 24.4 × 13.7 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

that of 1 is given on f. 62v: adyeha śṛīsūryapure ābhyaṃtaranāgarajñātīyabhaṭṭagovardhanasuta-putrapautraparaṃparayā paṭhanārthāṃ paropakārāya ca vyavasomanāthasya sutena vyavaviśvarūpeṇa Kauṣitakibrāhmaṇam lekhito | The name of the owner, bhaṭṭagovardhana, has been altered to Goviṃda, and finally erased. The letters are rather rubbed here, so the above reading is partly uncertain.

None is mentioned for 2.

For 3 the owner only is mentioned on f. 132v: idaṃ vustakaṃ Tryambaka dṛpāyatotasya (?) |

History

Origin: A. D. 1454, 17th cent., 1796.

that of 1 is given on f. 62v: saṃvat 1510 ⟨1454⟩ varṣe mārgasīrṣavadi 2 ravau | No date is given for 2, but it is probably not later than 1650 a. d.

That of 3 is given on f. 132v: saṃvat 1851 ⟨1795⟩ mītīkā |

Provenance and Acquisition

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

MS. Wilson 388(1) [fols 1v-62v]

Contents

Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇa, adhyāyas I to XV.

Language(s): Sanskrit

MS. Wilson 388(2) [fols 63-68v]

Contents

Drāhyāyaṇa Sūtra of the Sama-veda, with the commentary of Dhanvin.

Language(s): Sanskrit

Incipit: atha sarvayajñeṣu brahmatvaṃ vidhātum upakramate |

MS. Wilson 388(3) [fols 81v-132]

Contents

The Snānadīpikā of Gopīnātha, son of Mādhava, a commentary on Kātyāyana’s Snānasūtra.

Language(s): Sanskrit

Incipit: smṛtvā Someśvaraṃ devam natvā Kāiyāyanaṃ muniṃ | sarveṣām upakārāya kriyate Snānadīpikā ǁ
Explicit: iti śrīśaivamādhavāgnihotrīsutaśaiva-gopīnātlūgnihotrīviracitā Snānadipikā samāptāḥ | atha jalatarpaṇaṃ |

Additional Information

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 862 (1–3), p. 7

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. 862 (1–3), p. 7

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