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MS. Wilson 502

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Vedāṅgas, A. D. 1639, 17th cent.?, 1640.

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Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: i + 75 + i. The MSS. in the original are numbered separately.
Dimensions (binding): 23.5 × 13.0 cm.

Condition

a page of 2 is lost. F. 10 has been torn and mended.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

none is given for 1, but Govindarāma, a later owner, wrote the metrical notes on f. 22v. That of 2 has been obliterated by yellow pigment, but it is still legible on f. 46: bhaṭanārāyaṇasutaviśrāmena likhitaṃ | Rāmeśvarapaṭhanārthaṃ | paropakārārthaṃ | Kaśyāṃ likhitaṃ | That of 3 is given on f. 75: adyeha śrīvṛddhanagaravāstavyaābhyaṃtaranāgarajñātiyaupā-yīvāputraüpātrīlocanaputrapautrānāṃ paṭhanārthaṃ | śrīavimuktavārāṇasyāṃ śrīviśveśvararājadhanyāṃ likhitaṃ asti śubhaṃ |

History

Origin: A. D. 1639, 17th cent.?, 1640.

for 1 the date is given on f. 23: saṃ. 1695 (= a. d. 1639) varṣe bhā. śu. 10 ravau | For 2 no date is given, but as Roth, l. c., says, it must be of much the same date as 1. For 3 the date is given on f. 75: svasti saṃvat 1696 (= a. d. 1640) varṣe māghavade 9 bhume |

Provenance and Acquisition

that of 1 is given on f. 23v: travāḍiṣaḍānanagoviṃdarāmasya idaṃ pustakaṃ | For the rest see below.

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

MS. Wilson 502(1 (1)) [fols 1v-3v]

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The Śikṣā, attributed to Pāṇini, in the Yajur recension.

Language(s): Sanskrit

MS. Wilson 502(1 (2)) [fols 3v-6v]

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The Jyotiṣa, attributed to Lagadha, in the Yajur recension.

Language(s): Sanskrit

MS. Wilson 502(1 (3)) [fols 6v-11v]

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The Chandas, attributed to Piṅgala, in the Yajur recension. Incomplete

Language(s): Sanskrit

MS. Wilson 502(1 (4)) [fols 11v-23]

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The Nighaṇṭu:

Language(s): Sanskrit

MS. Wilson 502(2) [fols 24-46]

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The Nighaṇṭu:

Language(s): Sanskrit

MS. Wilson 502(3) [fols 47v-75]

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Kātyāyana’s Sarvānukramaṇī, and the Anuvākānukramaṇī.

Language(s): Sanskrit

Additional Information

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1077 (1–3), p. 103

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. 1077 (1–3), p. 103

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