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MS. Wilson 476

MSS. Wilson

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Vāsudeva’s Pāraskaragṛhyapaddhati, Yajurvedaśrāddha, A D. 1582, 1742.

Contents

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: i + 54 + i. The originals have 1–20, 35–63, and 1–5.
Dimensions (binding): 20.0 × 15.2 cm.

Condition

ff. 1–34 of 1 are lost, and have been partially replaced by ff. 1–20 in a later hand.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

on f. 49 the name of the scribe appears to have been deliberately erased. At the very foot we read: śrīḥ | jaya | jaya | japūrṇārtha | pā | bhāḍivena līṣītaṃ | For 2 the name is given on f. 54: lapekṛtaṃ vrātmaṇagobaṃdarāmaḥ Rāmapurāmadhe |

History

Origin: A. D. 1582, 1742.

that of 1 is given on f. 49: saṃvat 1638 (= a. d. 1582) varṣe virodhīsaṃvatsare grīṣmaṛtau jeṣṭamāsi śuklapakṣe adya paṃcamyāṃ pūṇyatīthau 5 ravivāsare punarvasunakṣatre karkaṭasthe caṃdre liṣitaṃ | Cf. Weber, l. c., whose MS. is dated saṃvat 1637. That of 2 is given on f. 54: matī jeṣṭabadī 12 saṃvat 1798 (= a. d. 1742) bhūrgavāsareḥ |

Provenance and Acquisition

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

MS. Wilson 476(1) [fols 1v-29]

Contents

Summary of Contents: The Pāraskaragṛhyapaddhati, being a summary of the rites laid down in the Pāraskara Gṛhya Sūtra of the White Yajur-veda, by Vāsudeva.

Language(s): Sanskrit

Incipit: oṃ śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ | atha gṛhyasūtravihitānām ādhānādisarvakarmaṇāṃ sādhāraṇo vidhir ucyate |

MS. Wilson 476(2)

Contents

Yajurvedaśrāddha, prayers for use at śrāddhas, in accordance with the Yajur-veda.

Language(s): Sanskrit

Explicit: ākāsāt patitaṃ toyaṃ yathā gachaṃte sāgaraṃ | sarhadeva askāraṃ kesa pratigachatī | itī śrījurjabedaḥśrādakī pothī saṃpūrṇam |

Additional Information

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1069 (1, 2), pp. 100-101

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. 1069 (1, 2), pp. 100-101

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