MSS. Wilson 439–442

MSS. Wilson

NOTE: This record has yet to be fully checked.

Ṛg-veda, Padapāṭha, a. d. 1655 & 18th cent.?

The Padapāṭha of the Ṛg-veda, complete in eight aṣṭakas, with accents

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: + +

Dimensions (binding): 23.2 × 11.4 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

aṣṭaka I has no note as to its writer. For the other aṣṭakas his name is given by the note in 442, f. 301: Aruṇācalasthala Kṛṣṇabhaṭṭānāṃ padapustakaṃ Dakṣiṇāmūrtinā likhitaṃ |

Further there are two notes relating to the accentuators: 439, f. 279: idaṃ pustaka svaritaṃ Suṃdarabhaṭṭena Rāmamaḍhohakareṇa (or ºkaraṇa?) | 441, f. 107: idaṃ pustakaṃ Kṛṣṇabhaṭṭakāśikarasya svaritaṃ Viṣṇubhaṭṭa Rāmapūrīpāpadaṃḍīkareṇa svaritaṃ | This latter person proceeds (f. 107v) to say: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ | pustakasya akṣaraṃ samīcīnaṃ nāsti tadvaśāt svara kvacit aśuddhaḥ |

History

Origin: 1655 & 18th cent.?

aṣṭaka I is undated; it is probably of the same period as MSS. Wilson 429–432, i. e. end of 18th cent. For the other aṣṭakas the date is given by the note in 442, f. 301: śakābdaṃ 1577 ⟨1655⟩ manmathasaṃvatsaramāghamāsi |

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. 881, p. 16

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. 881, p. 16

Funding of Cataloguing

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