MSS. Mill 147–150

MSS. Mill

NOTE: This record has yet to be fully checked.

Ṛg-veda, Saṃhitāpāṭha, A. D. 1715–1720.

The Saṃhitā text of the Ṛg-veda, accentuated, complete in eight aṣṭakas

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: + +

Dimensions (binding): 20.3 × 12.7 cm.

Condition

147 has lost part of the text on ff. 48v, 49, 50–56, 67, 88; and 148 on f. 192.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

the name of the scribe is carefully erased in all the colophons. The MS. was written at Benares.

History

Origin: A. D. 1715–1720.

saṃvat 1777⟨1721⟩ is given at the end of aṣṭakas III and VII; saṃvat 1776 ⟨1720⟩ at the end of aṣṭaka IV. At the end of aṣṭaka V, it is not clear whether we have to read saṃvat 1771, as Max Müller reads, or 1777. The other aṣṭakas have no date.

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of William Hodge Mill were purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1849 and 1858.

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:

Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 870, p. 12

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. 870, p. 12

Funding of Cataloguing

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