MS. Wilson 468

MSS. Wilson

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Pāvamāna, Mantrapraśna, 18th cent.? and 19th cent.?

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: i + 51 + i

Dimensions (binding): 22.5 × 12.4 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

the owner and scribe of 1 are given on f. 1: idaṃ pustakaṃ likhitaṃ Ratnākarajī tārelakṣmaṇabhaṭṭāce putra |

idaṃ pustakaṃ likhitaṃ Bālājī paṃtaṭhopledhudrājapaṃtāce putra |

Above this appears: Ratnākarasya likhitaṃ |

Bālājīpaṃḍitasya likhitaṃ |

History

Origin: 18th cent.? and 19th cent.?

1 seems to have been written about 1750 a. d. 2 is quite modern. Wintemitz, l. c., says 18th cent. If so, it must be the end of the century.

Provenance and Acquisition

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

MS. Wilson 468(1)

The Pāvamāna, consisting of Ṛg-veda IX, 1–67, divided into four sections.

Language(s): Sanskrit

MS. Wilson 468(2) [fols 37v-51v]

Summary of Contents: The first praśna of the Mantrapraśna, i. e. the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth paṭalas of the Āpastamba Śrauta Sūtra, giving the gṛhya mantras.

Language(s): Sanskrit

Explicit: iti śrīmaṃtrapraśne kāṃḍe prathamaḥ praśnaḥ |

Additional Information

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:

Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 865 (1, 2), pp. 8-9

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. 865 (1, 2), pp. 8-9

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