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MS. Mill 115

MSS. Mill

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Mahīdhara’s Vedadīpa, 19th cent.?

Contents

The Vedadīpa of Mahīdhara, adhyāyas 16–18

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: ii + 64 + ii. In the original each adhyāya has its separate foliation, containing 16 + 29 + 19 leaves.
Dimensions (binding): 35.2 × 16.8 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

History

Origin: 19th cent.?

probably a. d. 1838, if it was copied contemporaneously with MS. Mill 114 (933). In any case it cannot be earlier than a. d. 1820.

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. 934, pp. 37-38

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. 934, pp. 37-38

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