MSS. Wilson 57–60
MSS. Wilson
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Ṛg-veda, Saṃhitāpāṭha, with the commentary of Sāyaṇa, about A. D. 1825.
Contents
Summary of Contents: The first, third, and fourth aṣṭakas of the Ṛg-veda in the Saṃhitā text, with the commentary, Vedārthaprakāśa, of Sāyaṇācārya
Language(s): Sanskrit.
Physical Description
Form: pothī
Support: English paper, water-marked ‘V.E.I.C. (= East India Company) J. Whatman, 1825.’
Extent: + +
Dimensions (binding): 30.8 × 23.8 cm.
Hand(s)
Devanāgarī.
History
Origin: A. D. 1825.
as the official Government paper on which the MS. is written was manufactured in 1825, the MS. must have been written either in that year or after it.
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. 885, pp. 17-18
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. 885, pp. 17-18
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