MS. Wilson 443

MSS. Wilson

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Ṛg-veda, Saṃhitāpāṭha, Aṣṭaka I, 18th cent.?

The first aṣṭaka of the Ṛg-veda in the Saṃhitā text, without accents

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: ii + 74 + ii

Dimensions (binding): 26.7 × 9.5 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

History

Origin: 18th cent.?

f. 74: īśvaranāmasaṃvatsare uttarāyaṃchośaśi ṛtau māghamāse 6 kṛṣṇapakṣe adya trayodaśī guruvāre prathamāṣṭaka samāptaḥ | kārtīkaśuddhadaśimī prārambhe māghakṛṣṇatrayodaśī samāptaḥ | The reading is uncertain as the original has been much corrected. The most probable date is either a. d. 1757 (Southern cycle) or a. d. 1747 (Northern).

Provenance and Acquisition

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

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:

Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 875, p. 14

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. 875, p. 14

Funding of Cataloguing

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