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MS. Wilson 69

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Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, Book XI; Kātyāyanasūtrapaddhati, Book XIII; A. D. 1805 & 16th cent.?

Contents

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: i + 54 + i
Dimensions (binding): 33.0 × 15.2 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

History

Origin: A. D. 1805 & 16th cent.?

the date of 1 is given on f. 48v: saṃvat 1861 ⟨1805⟩ | Bodl. catal., p. 364b, gives 1804 as the date.

The date. of 3 is not given. Bodl. catal., l. c., assigns the writing to the 16th cent. It may, however, belong to the 17th.

Provenance and Acquisition

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

MS. Wilson 69(1) [fols 1v-48v]

Contents

The eleventh book of the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, the so-called aṣṭādhyāyī, without accents.

Language(s): Sanskrit

MS. Wilson 69(2) [fols 49v-54v]

Contents

Summary of Contents: The Kātyāyanasūtrapaddhati, BookXIII, treating of the great sattra, the gavāmayana, of Yājñikadeva. It is an abbreviation of Book XIII of the Kātyāyana Śrauta Sūtra and his commentary thereon.

Language(s): Sanskrit

Incipit: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ | oṃ atha gavāmayanasya paddhatir likhyate |
Explicit: iti śrīyājñikadevakṛtāyāṃ Kātyāyanasūtrapaddhatau trayodaśo ’dhyāyaḥ | gavāmayanasaṃjñaṃ saṃvatsarasattraṃ samāptaṃ |

Additional Information

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 863 (1, 2), 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. 863 (1, 2), p. 7

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