MS. Sansk. c. 47

MSS. Sansk. c.

NOTE: This record has yet to be fully checked.

Yajñopavītapaddhati, 18th or 19th cent.?

A fragment of a manual of domestic rites, belonging to the White Yajur-veda

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: svasti śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ‖ aṣṭavarṣaṃ vrāhmaṇam upanayed garbhāṣṭameṣu vaikādaśavarṣaṃ | &c

Explicit: praṇītāsu pavitrānidhānaṃ ‖ atha dakṣiṇajānv ānamya juhoti ‖ hutaśeṣaprokṣaṇīpātre nikṣipet ‖ oṃ namaḥ Prajāpataye svāhāḥ idaṃ Prajāpattaye Iṃdrāyaḥ svāhā idaṃ Iṃdrāya agnaye svāhā idam agnaye Somāya svāhā idaṃ Somāya ‖

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: iv + 16

Dimensions (binding): 31.1 × 13.7 cm.

Condition

most of the leaves are protected by transparent paper, and some letters are lost on ff. 1 and 2.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

History

Origin: 18th or 19th cent.?

probably end of 18th or beginning of 19th century.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 18).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:

Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1068, p. 100

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. 1068, p. 100

Funding of Cataloguing

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