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MS. Wilson 450

MSS. Wilson

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Hautrasūtra, Darśapaurṇamāsyahautraprayoga Nirñḍhapaśuprayoga, Yājñikadeva’s Kātīyasūtravṛtti, 19th cent.? A. D. 1778, 19th cent.?, A. D. 1586.

Contents

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: ii + 192 + ii. In the original numeration the MSS. have 93, 14, 12, 71 (really 72, f. 37 being double) leaves.
Dimensions (binding): 26.0 × 14.3 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

no name is given for 1 or 3.

That of 2 is given on f. 107v: li ºmetāvejanātha (corrected from ºvaija?) |

That of 4 is given on f. 192v: adyeha śrīvārāṇasyāṃ vāstavyaṃ udīcyajñātīyavyāsaśrīraghunāthasutaravijī likhito ’yaṃ graṃthaḥ |

History

Origin: A. D. 1778, 19th cent.?,

that of 1 is not given: its appearance is quite modern. 3 looks a little older, but not much.

Both belong no doubt to the beginning of the 19th century or the very end of the 18th.

3 is dated on f. 107v: saṃvat 1834 ⟨1778⟩ jyeṣṭaśudī 10 ravau |

4 is dated on f. 192v: saṃvat 1642 ⟨1586⟩ samaye pauṣavadi 9 some | Bodl. catal., p. 382a, gives 1596, but the date is quite clear.

Provenance and Acquisition

that of 4 is given on f. 192v: miśraśrīratneśvarair lliṣāpitaḥ svayamavalokanārthaṃ putrapautrāṇāṃ paṭhanārthaṃ ca |

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

MS. Wilson 450(1) [fols 1v-93]

Contents

The Hautrasūtra, attributed in the MS. to Kātyāyana.

Language(s): Sanskrit

Incipit: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ | hautrasutraṃ likhyate | hautraṃ kariṣyan saṃcareṇa praviśyāpareṇāhavaniyaṃ prāṅ tiṣṭhann adhvaryupreṣito brahmasāmidhenīr anuvakṣyāmīty uktvā tasmāt prasavam ākāṃkṣet |
Explicit: iti Kātyāyanahautrasutre paṃcamo ’dhyāyaḥ |

MS. Wilson 450(2) [fols 94v-107v]

Contents

The Darśapaurṇamāsyahautraprayoga, a manual of the hotṛ’s duties at the New and Full Moon offerings.

Language(s): Sanskrit

Incipit: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ | atha darśapaurṇamāsyahautraprayoga likhyate | oṃ namaḥ pravaktre namaḥ | upadraṣṭre namo ’nukhyātre ka idam anuvakṣyati sa idam anuvakṣyati |
Explicit: iti darśiviśeṣaḥ |

MS. Wilson 450(3) [fols 108v-119]

Contents

The Nirūḍhapaśubandhaprayoga, a manual of the ceremonies at the animal sacrifice.

Language(s): Sanskrit

Incipit: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ | atha nirūḍhapaśuprayogaḥ | nirūḍhapaśubaṃdhe prathamāprayoge mātṛsrāddhaṃ | agnīṣomīyaprakṛtitvān nānv āraṃbhaṇīyā | samāropaḥ | gṛhe maṃthanaṃ | uddharaṇaṃ |
Explicit: śatabrāhmaṇabhojanaṃ smṛtyuktaṃ | apare vihāre evāgnihotrahomaḥ | iti paśubaṃdhaḥ samāptaḥ |

MS. Wilson 450(4) [fols 121v-192v]

Contents

The Kātīyasūtravṛtti of Yājñikadeva, son of Prajāpati, being a commentary on Kātyāyana’s Śrauta Sūtra.

Language(s): Sanskrit

Additional Information

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 864 (1–4), p. 8

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. 864 (1–4), p. 8

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