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MS. Mill 146

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Tāṇḍya and Ārṣeya Brāhmaṇas, A. D. 1761.

Contents

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: ii + 225
Dimensions (binding): 29.5 × 14.0 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

Tripāṭhī Dhaneśvara of Benares.

History

Origin: A. D. 1761.

saṃvat 1817 (= A. D. 1761) mārgaśīrṣamāse śuklapakṣe |

Provenance and Acquisition

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

MS. Mill 146(1)

Contents

MS. note on the Sāma-veda, probably by Mill, ff. i, ii.

Language(s): Sanskrit

MS. Mill 146(2) [fols 1-209v]

Contents

Summary of Contents: The Tāṇḍya Brāhmaṇa of the Sāma-veda, twenty-five prapāṭhakas, ff. 1–209. It ends on f. 209v: tad etad viśvasṛjāṃ sahasrasaṃvatsaram etena vai viśvasṛjaḥ sarvām ṛddhim ārdhnuvant sarvām ṛddhim ṛdhnuvanti ya etad upayanti ǁ 18 ǁ iti pañcaviṃśaḥ prapāṭhakaḥ ǁ 25 ǁ There is another copy of this work by the same hand in MS. Wilson 373 (947).

Language(s): Sanskrit

Explicit: tad etad viśvasṛjāṃ sahasrasaṃvatsaram etena vai viśvasṛjaḥ sarvām ṛddhim ārdhnuvant sarvām ṛddhim ṛdhnuvanti ya etad upayanti ǁ 18 ǁ iti pañcaviṃśaḥ prapāṭhakaḥ ǁ 25 ǁ

MS. Mill 146(3) [fols 210-224]

Contents

The Ārṣeya Brāhmaṇa of the Sāma-veda, three prapāṭhakas, ff. 210–224.

Language(s): Sanskrit

Incipit: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ | oṃ namaḥ sāmavedāya | atha khalv ayam ārṣaḥ pradeśo bhavaty ṛṣīṇāṃ nāmadheyagotropadhāraṇaṃ | &c.
Explicit: simā vā mahṇyā (or maṭṇyā?) vā śakvaryo vā śakvaryo vā ǁ 29 ǁ ity Ārṣeyabrāhmaṇasya tṛtīyaḥ prapāṭhakaḥ |

Additional Information

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 951 (1–3), p. 44

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. 951 (1–3), p. 44

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