MSS. Mill 68, 69

MSS. Mill

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Sureśvara’s Bṛhadāraṇyakabhāṣyavārttika, 17th cent.? and A. D. 1835.

Summary of Contents: The Bṛhadāraṇyakabhāṣyavārttika of Sureśvarācārya, pupil of Śaṅkarācārya, being a paraphrase of Śaṅkara’s bhāṣya on the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad in ślokas, complete

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: [276v] samāptaḥ saptamo ’dhyāyaḥ prāptāv ata ucyate | aṣṭamaḥ khilakāṃḍe’smin pūrvakāṃḍeśv anuktitaḥ ‖

Explicit: [298] iti dvādaśasāhasrīvārtikāmṛtam īrītaṃ | Kāṇvāraṇyakabhāṣyasya Sāṃkarasya samāsataḥ ‖ cha |

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: + +

Dimensions (binding): 27.9 × 16.5 cm.

Condition

ff. 292–307 of 68; ff. 1–7, 39–82 of 69 have been torn and are mended with paper.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

no name is given for those of parts 1 or 3. For part 2 we have on f. 231 of 68: laṣītaṃ Vīśvanātha | On f. 9 of 69: likhitaṃ Rājarāgena mahācaṃcakarūpiṇā | pustaṃ śastaṃ samastaṃ hi caturthādhyāyasāṃjñakaṃ ‖ 1 ‖ These two notices perhaps refer to the same man, as apparently the handwriting of both the parts done is identical, or perhaps Viśvanātha is the patron.

History

Origin: A. D. 1835.

no date is given for part 2, probably it was written about a. d. 1700. The other parts must be of the same date. That of part 1 is given on f. 298 of 69: śrīsaṃvat 1891 ⟨1835⟩ jeṣṭasudi 15 vāraśani |

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. 996, p. 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. 996, p. 68

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