MS. Wilson 394

MSS. Wilson

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Varadarāja’s Pratiharabhāṣya, 17th cent.?

Summary of Contents: The Pratihārabhāṣya of Varadarāja, son of Vāmanācārya, grandson of Anantanārāyaṇa, being a commentary on the Pratihāra Sūtra of the Sāma-veda attributed to Kātyāyana

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: [1v] śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ | śrīsarasvatyai namaḥ | vāgīśādyāḥ sumanasaḥ sarvārthānām anukrame | yan natvā kṛtakṛtyāḥ syus taṃ namāmi gajānanaṃ ‖ 1 ‖ namo ’stu tasmai devāya yaḥ prasūr agryajanmanāṃ | kṛtsne ca vedeṣṭraṇumo (yaṃ in marg.) sākṣād devakīsutaṃ ‖ 2 ‖ yo Vāmanācāryamagnād Anaṃtanārāyaṇayajvasutāt | ajani Kuśikānvapāye sāṃgedhītī ca Sāmavede ’yam racayati sa Varadarājaḥ Pratihārāṣeyakalpayor vṛttim ‖ 3 ‖

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: i + 67 + i. The two parts of the original have 62 (really 61, as f. 46 is passed over) + 6 leaves.

Dimensions (binding): 27.9 × 14.6 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

History

Origin: 17th cent.?

the MS. dates probably from about A.D. 1650.

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. 1032, pp. 85-86

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. 1032, pp. 85-86

Funding of Cataloguing

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