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MSS. Mill 100, 101

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Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, A. D. 1829, 1835.

Contents

The Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā of the White Yajur-veda, in the Mādhyandina recension, in the Saṃhitā form, complete in forty adhyāyas

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper, of Indian manufacture, with the exception of ff. 61–75, and 142 of which are of English manufacture of the year 1832.
Extent: + +
Dimensions (binding): 22.2 × 13.7 cm.

Condition

100, ff. 161–168 of the original are missing.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

101, f. 60: likhitaṃ Gopālabhaṭapāṭhakavikṣaṇārthaṃ | śrīgajānanaprasanna | 101, f. 195v: idaṃ pustakaṃ Bāllaṃbhaṭātmajavāmanabhaṭa vardāpūrakara aocha (?) |

History

Origin: 1829, 1835.

part 1 is dated on 101, f. 60: saṃvāt 1885 ⟨1829⟩ phālguṇakṛṣṇapratipadāyām andavāsare taddinaṃ pustakaṃ samāptaṃ | Part 2 is dated on f. 195: savat 1888 (?) śake 1757 (= a. d. 1835) śārvārināmasaṃvatsare mārgaśīrṣavadya 6 taddine saptaḥ | The date of 101, ff. 61–75, 143, cannot be before 1832, or 1835, but may be much later, c. 1850.

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. 921, pp. 32-33

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. 921, pp. 32-33

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