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MS. Wilson 509

MSS. Wilson

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Kātyāyanasūtrapaddhati, Yājñikadeva’s Kātyāyanaśrautrasūtravyākhyā, A. D. 1653, 1586.

Contents

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: ii + 241 + ii. In the original 1 has 187 leaves, f. 118 being omitted and f. 88 doubled; 2 has 55 leaves.
Dimensions (binding): 26.7 × 14.6 cm.

Condition

f. 1 of 1 is lost Both parts are damaged.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

History

Origin: A. D. 1653, 1586.

that of 1 is given on f. 186: saṃvat 1709 (= a. d. 1653) varṣe samaye kārttikakṛṣṇe caturdaśyāṃ jivavāsare | That of 2 is given on f. 241: saṃvat 1642 (= a. d. 1586) varṣe māghavadi daśamīdine bhṛgau |

Provenance and Acquisition

for 1 there is on f. 186: śrījānīsyedaṃ pustakaṃ pūrṇaṃ |

The collection of Horace Hayman Wilson was purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1842.

MS. Wilson 509(1) [fols 1-186]

Contents

The Kātyāyanasūtrapaddhati, a brief manual of the matter contained in Kātyāyana’d Śrauta Sūtra.

Language(s): Sanskrit

MS. Wilson 509(2) [fols 187v-241]

Contents

The Kātīyasūtravyākhyā of Yājñikadeva, son of Prajāpati, a commentary on Kātyāyana’s Śrauta Sūtra.

Language(s): Sanskrit

Explicit: iti samrāṭsthapitamahāyājñikaśrīprajātisutamahāyājñika-śrīdevakṛte Kātyāyanasūtre paṃcadaśo ’dhyāyaḥ |

Additional Information

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1044 (1, 2), pp. 90-91

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. 1044 (1, 2), pp. 90-91

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