MS. Mill 64

MSS. Mill

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Śaṅkara’s Bṛhadāraṇyakabhāṣya, A.D. 1511.

The Bṛhadāraṇyakabhāṣya of Śaṅkarācārya, being a commentary on the Bṛhadāranyaka Upaniṣad

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: ii + 162 + ii. Exactly 100 leaves have been passed over, viz. 126–225 in the original, and f. 2 is missing, so that the original counts 263 leaves.

Dimensions (binding): 28.9 × 15.6 cm.

Condition

f. 2 is lost, and ff. 126–225.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

f. 162v: adiha śrīgirapure māhārāyoraüla-śrīudisaṃvvavijarājye | Sīrapuravāsiavyaṃ | ābhyaṃ-taranāgarajñātibhaṭaśrībhīlāputrapautrapaṭhanārthaṃ | ābhyaṃtaranāgarajñātipaṃḍyāsivāsutarāmaiyā likhitaṃ |

History

Origin: A. D. 1511.

f. 162v: svasti saṃvat 1567 ⟨1511⟩ āṣāḍhavadi 12 some | The original reading was mārgaśirṣa, but it has been corrected by the first hand.

Provenance and Acquisition

f. 1:(1) duve śrīśrīkikāmahādevasya pustakaṃ | Upanlṣadabhāṣya Śaṃkara | Cf. f. 162v. (2) śrīmadviṣṇubhaṭṭānāṃ pustakam idaṃ Bṛhadāraṇyakabhāṣyasya |

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. 995, pp. 67-68

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. 995, pp. 67-68

Funding of Cataloguing

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