MS. Wilson 365

MSS. Wilson

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Śatapatha Brāhṃana, Books IV, XII, XIII, XIV, A. D. 1636 and 17th or 18th cent.?

Books IV, XII, XIII, XIV of the Śatapatha Brāhṃana in the Mādhyandina recension

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: ii + 333 + ii. In the original each book has its own foliation.

Dimensions (binding): 27.0 × 15.2 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

none is given for part (1), but he must have been identical with the writer of part (3), which is certainly in the same hand. The scribe of part (2) is given on f. 180: śrīgaṃgājīmaṇikarṇṇīviśveśvarasaṃnidhau lakhītaṃ | Līkṣatadevajīsutaharīharabhrātṛdyaṃnakarapaṭhanārthaṃ (sic) | tathī propakārārthaṃ lakhītaṃ | At the foot in a later hand: diº-devajīyevedamadhyamasahītakāṃḍa 14 athyāṃ dīº-puruṣottamapaṭhanārtham | For part (3) we have on f. 258v: Vāraṇasyāṃ likhakaüpā-dhyāyaüddhavena likhitaṃ | Devajīdīkṣitena likhāpitam idaṃ kāṃḍaṃ samāptaṃ | Then at the foot by a later hand: saṃsaṃrāṭśrīdevajīyevedaāthyo aśvanedhasahītakāṃḍa 14 āthyāṃ | From these statements it is just possible that part (3) is written in a different hand from part (2), but the two are very similar indeed, though part (3) is more widely spaced than part (2). In MS. Wilson 363 (959), part (3), ff. 289 sq. differ from the preceding much as (2) from (3), being more cursive.

History

Origin: A. D. 1636 and 17th or 18th cent.?

none is given for part (1). Doubtless it is of approximately the same date as parts (2) and (3). For (2) the date is given on f. 180: saṃvat 1692 (= a. d. 1636) varṣe māghamāse śuklapakṣe ekādaśyāyāṃ tithau śanivāsare | This is not noted in the Bodl. catal., p. 377a. For part (3) the date is given on f. 258v: saṃvat 1692 (= a. d. 1636) kārtiikamāse kṛṣṇapakṣe tṛtīyāyāṃ tithau ravivāsare | Weber, l. c., p. ix, and after him the Bodl. Catal., l. c., gave the date as saṃvat 1691 (= a. d. 1635), but this is wrong. No date is given for part (4) of the MS. It is probably as old as a. d. 1750, and may be older still.

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. 957, pp. 51-52

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. 957, pp. 51-52

Funding of Cataloguing

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