MS. Mill 85

MSS. Mill

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Kātyāyana Śrauta Sūtra, A. D. 1600, 1695.

The Śrauta Śūtra of Kātyāyana, complete in twenty-six adhyāyas

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: ii + 221 + ii. Originally the parts had 117 (i. e. 112 + 5) and 94 leaves.

Dimensions (binding): 25.1 × 14.0 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

for part (1) see f. 117: liṣitaṃ purohitaparamānaṃdena | For part (2) see f. 221: likhitaṃ Jāgeśvaraśaṃghajī svārthe paropakārārthe | A note says that the pūrvārddha of this part had 97, the uttarārddha 94 = 191 leaves.

History

Origin: 1600, 1695.

for part (1) see f. 117: saṃvat 1656 ⟨1600⟩ varṣe pauṣaśudi 4 bhaume | For part (2) see f. 221v: saṃvat 1751 ⟨1695⟩ posavadī ṣaṣṭyāṃ somavāsaṃ |

Provenance and Acquisition

part (1), according to a note on f. 117v, belonged to Indrajī; part (2), see ff. 118, 221v, to Someśvarajī. The former gives his date as saṃvat 1787 ⟨1731⟩ phālguṇaśudī 5 bhaume |

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. 1041, p. 89

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. 1041, p. 89

Funding of Cataloguing

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