MS. Wilson 446

MSS. Wilson

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Aitareya Brāhmaṇa, 17th or 18th cent.?

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: iii + 130 + ii

Dimensions (binding): 23.2 × 13.7 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

none is given for parts (1) or (4).

For part (2) we have on f. 74v: hepthī Veṃkaṭaśivasya likhi | which may denote the person for whom it was written.

For part (3) we have a very illegible note on f. 102. The name seems to be Sambhubhaṭṭa.

History

Origin: 17th or 18th cent.?

no date is given for parts (1) or (3), which are contemporaneous, but they probably belong to the end of the 17th or beginning of the 18th century.

For part (2) we have on f. 74: śrāvaṇamāse śuklapakṣe dakṣināyane pratipatithau bhānuvāsare | The year does not appear, but it is probably late 18th century.

For part (4) we have on f. 102: 1770 śake 1635 ⟨1713⟩ āṣāḍhavaº 3 ravau |

Provenance and Acquisition

part (4) has on f. 102: idaṃ pustakaṃ Muraṃḍibhairavabhaṭṭasya pukaṃ saptaṃ |

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. 941, pp. 40-41

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. 941, pp. 40-41

Funding of Cataloguing

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A catalogue of South Asian Manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries