MS. Wilson 363

MSS. Wilson

NOTE: This record has yet to be fully checked.

Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, Books I, VIII, IX, A. D. 1653, 1702, 1636.

Three separate MSS. bound up together; parts of the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa in the Mādhyandina recension.

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: ii + 313 + ii. Each MS. in the original has its own foliation.

Dimensions (binding): 26.4 × 14.9 cm.

Condition

ff. 130–139 of the original have been lost in part (1). There is a small lacuna at the beginning of part (2). On f. 1v some letters are illegible. There are small holes in ff. 26, 30. That in f. 114 has been mended with white paper.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

Scribes: for part (1) the scribe is given on f. 142v: adyeha śrīsūrygapurvvāstavyā ’bhyaṃtaranāgarajñātīya-jñāṃnīvaśasutratrivikramatathāvāsudevatathāharīhareṇa likhitaṃ | Mukuṃdajīpaṭhanārthaṃ | For part (2) the scribe is given on f. 238: likhitam idaṃ pustakaṃ Raṃganāthena | For part (3) the scribe’s patron is named on f. 313: adyeha Avimuktivārāṇasīsthāne śrīgauḍajñātīyadīkṣatadevajīsutahariharapaṭhanārthaṃ | The scribe was probably the same as that of MS. Wilson 365 (957), part (3).

History

Origin: A. D. 1653, 1702, 1636.

Dates: for part (1) the date is given on f. 142v: saṃvat 1709 (= a. d. 1653) varṣe bhādrapadamāse śuklapakṣe śanivāsare | For part (2) the date is given on f. 238: saṃvat 1758 (= a. d. 1702) varṣe jeṣṭaśudi | taddine | For part (3) the date is given on f. 313: saṃvat 1692 (= a. d. 1636) varṣe māghamāse śuklapakṣe dvādaśyāyāṃ tithau ravivāsare |

Provenance and Acquisition

for part (2), see f. 238v: ṭhāº-chamanāsvedaṃ pustakaṃ | for part (3), f. 313v: Puruṣottama |

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. 959, pp. 53-54

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. 959, pp. 53-54

Funding of Cataloguing

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