MS. Wilson 362

MSS. Wilson

NOTE: This record has yet to be fully checked.

Ṛg-veda, Padapāṭha, Aṣṭaka II, A. D. 1501.

The second aṣṭaka of the Ṛg-veda in the Pada text, with accents

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: ii + 57 + ii. F. 45 in the original foliation is losṭ, so that the numberings disagree after f. 44.

Dimensions (binding): 28.3 × 15.2 cm.

Condition

f. 45 is lost.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

the scribe’s patron is apparently named in the following hardly legible words on f. 57: adya śrīvṛddhanagare vāstavyaduvesadasutaduvemaṇapaṭhanārthaṃ putrapautrapaṭhanārthaṃ |

The accentuator is named on f. 57: Gonākena svaraśodhitaṃ ca (?) |

History

Origin: A. D. 1501.

the date of the writing of the MS. is given on f. 57: saṃvat 1557 ⟨1501⟩ varṣe śrāvaṇaśudi 9 śanau likhitaṃ |

The date of the adding of the accents is given on f. 57: saṃvat 1559 ⟨1503⟩ varṣe āśvanaśudi 15 |

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. 882, pp. 16-17

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. 882, pp. 16-17

Funding of Cataloguing

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A catalogue of South Asian Manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries