MS. Mill 93

MSS. Mill

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Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, A. D. 1831.

The Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā of the White Yajur-veda, Saṃhitāpāṭha, in the Mādhyandinaśākhā, accented, complete in forty adhyāyas

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: ii + 268 + i

Dimensions (binding): 24.1 × 15.2 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

f. 268: tatsaṃhitāpustakaṃ samāpta Hāri-rāmaceṃdraghaḍālacikaramālekarasye pustakaṃ Gopālakhaṃḍojosi ākhegāvakaraprāṃtagodātira likhitvā dattaṃ śubhaṃ bhavatu |

History

Origin: A. D. 1831.

f. 268: svasti śrīnṛpaśālivāhanaśake 1753 ⟨1831⟩ kharanāmābde uttarāyaṇe vasaṃtaṛtau caitramāse śuklapakṣe titho 5 paṃcemi bhṛguvāsare taddineya | The Bodl. catal., p. 393b, gives a. d. 1697 as the date, having obviously misread the era.

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. 920, p. 32

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. 920, p. 32

Funding of Cataloguing

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