MS. Mill 114

MSS. Mill

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Mahīdhara’s Vedadīpa, A. D. 1838.

The Vedadīpa by Mahīdhara

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper, apparently European.

Extent: ii + 244 + ii. The original has no continuous foliation, but has 16 + 64 + 36 + 14 + 17 + 20 + 10 + 22 + 10 + 20 + 13 leaves.

Dimensions (binding): 34.3 × 22.2 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanagārī.

on f. 243v appears this note: liṣitaṃ Māhādevaḥ phā. śu. 13 gu. | Perhaps it may be conjectured that this is the Mahādeva of MSS. Mill 121–124 (954); if so the above date would suit an original written by him very well.

History

Origin: A. D. 1838.

the note on f. 1 gives the date as 1838. On f. 178 it is said: saṃvat 1690 ⟨1634⟩ varṣe kārttikasudītṛtīyāṃ Vārāṇasyāṃ likhitaṃ pustakaṃ | Hence Bodl. catal., p. 395a, by correcting 16 into 18, gets a. d. 1834 as the date of the MS. But it is preferable to regard the date as that of the original of the copy.

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. 933, p. 37

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. 933, p. 37

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