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MS. Wilson 20

MSS. Wilson

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Kātyāyana’s Sarvānukramaṇī to the Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, about A. D. 1828.

Contents

Summary of Contents: The Sarvānukramaṇikā of Kātyāyana, being an index of the gods, ṛṣis and metres, of the Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, in the Mādhyandina śākhā

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: [1v] śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ | śrīḍuṃḍhirājāya namaḥ | oṃ | maṃḍalaṃ dakṣiṇam akṣi hṛdayaṃ cādhiṣṭitaṃ yena śuklāni yajūṃṣi bhagavān Yājñavalkyo yataḥ prāpa taṃ Vivasvaṃtaṃ trayīmayam arcciṣmaṃtam abhidhāya Mādhyaṃdinīye Vājasaneyake Yajurvedāmnaye sarkke sakhile saśukriya ṛṣidaivatachaṃdāṃsy anukramiṣyāmo |

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper of European manufacture, water-marked ‘Wise 1828.’
Extent: ii + 18 + ii
Dimensions (binding): 43.2 × 18.1 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

History

Origin: A. D. 1828.

the paper is water-marked 1828, and it must have been copied about this date for H. H. Wilson.

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. 935, p. 38

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. 935, p. 38

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