MS. Wilson 67

MSS. Wilson

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Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, Books I, II, III, A. D. 1805.

Summary of Contents: Books I, II, III of the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, dealing with the haviryajña, ekapādikā, adhvara, all without accents, in the Mādhyandina recension

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: ii + 173 + ii. Really there are 193 leaves as in the new foliation ff. 60–79 are repeated. In the original each MS. has its own foliation.

Dimensions (binding): 33.0 × 16.8 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

one hand has written part (1), another parts (2) and (3). Neither has any resemblance to the hand which in this year wrote Book XI (MS. Wilson 69 (863), part (1)), though possibly these books were parts of a whole with Book XI.

History

Origin: A. D. 1805.

the date for part (1) is given on f. 59: saṃ 1861 (= a. d. 1805) mīº maghaśuddha 10 vāº maṃ | The date for part (2), and therefore for part (3), is given on f. 95: saṃvat 1861 (= a. d. 1805) varṣe māghasudi 11 | The Bodl. catal., p. 364b, gives 1804, but this is incorrect. There is no separate date for part (3).

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. 958, pp. 52-53

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. 958, pp. 52-53

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