MSS. Wilson 62, 63

MSS. Wilson

NOTE: This record has yet to be fully checked.

Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, A.D. 1804–1806.

Books IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, XII, XIII, XIV of the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa in the Mādhyandina recenaion

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: + +

Dimensions (binding): 34.3 × 16.5 cm.

Condition

all defects are noted above.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

according to the identifications made above, we have to distinguish two handa. To the first belongs 62, parts (1), (3), (4); 63, parts (1), (2), (4), (5) to f.214v. The rest, 62, parts (2), (5), 63, parts (3), (5) from f. 215, belongs to the latter. His name, &c., are given in 63, f. 238v: Vārānasyāṃ Gaṃgāviśveśvara-sannidhau Medapāṭhajñātīyatraº - śrīdevadattasutaka-lyāṇena likhitam idaṃ pustakaṃ | Kalyāṇena Paṃḍyārāmeśvarāya dattam idaṃ pustakaṃ |

History

Origin: A. D. 1804–1806.

the following dates are given at various points in the MSS.:

62, f. 112v: saṃvat 1861 (= a. d. 1805) | f. 149: saṃvat 1861 śāke 1726 (= a. d. 1804) phālgunavadi 30 (sic) bhṛguvāsare |

63, f. 55: saṃvat 1862 (= a. d. 1806) | f. 102: saṃvat 1861 (= a. d. 1805) phālgunasudī 2 | f. 142: saṃ 1861 (= a. d. 1805) | f. 238v: saṃvat (a blank where the date should have been) varṣe pauṣavadidvitīyā ravau |

These dates, if the above identifications of the handwriting are correct, suffice to place the whole MS. about a. d. 1804–1806.

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. 956, pp. 50-51

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. 956, pp. 50-51

Funding of Cataloguing

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