MS. Wilson 4

MSS. Wilson

NOTE: This record has yet to be fully checked.

Sāyaṇa’s Vedārthaprakāśa, and Harisvāmin’s Śatapathabhāṣya, about A. D. 1828.

Language(s): Sanskrit.

1. 1v-65r

Sāyaṇa’s commentary on Book VII

2. 66v-123v

Sāyaṇa’s commentary on Book IX

3. 125v-228r

Sāyana’s commentary on Book XI

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: English paper, water-marked ‘V. E. I. C. J. Whatman Balston and Co., 1827,’ and ‘E. Wise, 1828,’

Extent: iii + 228 + ii

Dimensions (binding): 43.2 × 19.4 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

Weber, l. c., p. xi, note, writes: ‘Three scribes are to be discerned in the three copies 2–4 of the Bodl. Wils. Coll. The kâṇḍas i, vii, ix have been copied by the one, the kâṇḍas ii, v by another, the kâṇḍas iii, xi by a third.’ This statement rests on similarity of handwriting and of punctuation only, as the paper affords no test, one kind (the ‘Wise’ water-mark) being used mainly in i, v, vii, ix, the other in ii, iii, xi, but the two being occasionally mixed.

History

Origin: A. D. 1828.

two kinds of paper are used, and the dates in the water-marks are 1827 and 1828. Therefore the MS. was probably copied for Wilson in or shortly after the latter year.

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. 972, pp. 57-58

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. 972, pp. 57-58

Funding of Cataloguing

We Are Our History

A catalogue of South Asian Manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries