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MS. Wilson 460

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Śrautapaddhati, 17th cent.?

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A Śrautapaddhati, a manual of the chief Śrauta rites, following to some extent the Sāma-veda, by an anonymous author

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: ii + 179 + ii. In the original ff. 116, 119 are passed over, ff. 158, 161 are repeated. A new enumeration also begins on f. 50, and counts 128 leaves, f. 71 being repeated and called a śodhapatra, and f. 117 being repeated.
Dimensions (binding): 24.1 × 12.7 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

History

Origin: 17th cent.?

probably about a. d. 1650.

Provenance and Acquisition

f. 1: ṭhāº chamanānīsyedaṃ (?) pustakaṃ Agniṣṭomapaddhati 128 |

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. 1050, pp. 93-94

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. 1050, pp. 93-94

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