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MS. Mill 108

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Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, A.D. 1793.

Contents

The Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, being the seventeenth book of the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa in the Kāṇva recension

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: ii + 120 + ii. In the original the leaves were apparently numbered 1–50 and 1–70, but the latter series has been corrected, and, as noted above, the leaves have been bound in wrong order.
Dimensions (binding): 14.9 × 12.7 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī, transcribed from Śāradā (?).

no name is given, but there can be very little doubt, in view of the similarity of writing, origin, &c., that the scribe was Lālaka, see MS. Mill 109 (1007).

History

Origin: A. D. 1793.

probably a. d. 1793, when it was copied (f. 1) from a MS. in Colonel Martin’s possession. The copyist writes on f. 120: oṃ saṃvat | oṃ phālguṇavadidvitīyasyāṃ parataḥ tṛtīyasyāṃ bhaume samāpto ’yaṃ Vṛhadāraṇyakaüpaniṣat likhitaṃ samāptaṃ | The Bodl. catal., p. 394a, equates this with saṃvat 1767 ⟨1711⟩, but clearly this is the date, in the era of Kashmir, of the writing of the original MS. As usual the thousands and hundreds are omitted, so that the date is indeterminate, cf. Bühler, Report, pp. 59, 60; possibly a. d. (17)92.

Provenance and Acquisition

from notes on the inside of the cover and on f. 1 it appears that the MS. was presented by Col. Claud Martin to Sir William Jones on Feb. 2, 1793. There are a few manuscript notes by Sir William Jones in the MS. The book passed into the hands of S. H. Lewin in 1831, who in 1838 presented it to W. H. Mill, D.D. Cf. MS. Mill 109 (1007).

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. 993, pp. 66-67

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. 993, pp. 66-67

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