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MS. Sansk. c. 133

MSS. Sansk. c.

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Miscellaneous fragments, 19th cent.?

Contents

Various Sanskrit fragments

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: i + 17 + i
Dimensions (binding): 37.1 × 24.1 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

for 1–3 see above.

History

Origin: 19th cent.?

Provenance and Acquisition

1–3 belonged to Prof. Max Müller.

MS. Sansk. c. 133(1) [fols 1-5]

Contents

Summary of Contents: A letter from H. H. Wilson to Professor Max Müller, dated March 28, 1859, asking him to verify a passage cited by Rādhākānta from the Nārāyaṇīyā Upaniṣad justifying the practice of satī.

Language(s): Sanskrit

Incipit: Agne vratānāṃ vratapatir asi pātyānugamavrataṃ cariṣyāmi tac chakeyaṃ tan me rādhyatāṃ ǁ he Agne karmmasākṣin yataḥ tvaṃ vratānāṃ prājāpatyākhilavratānāṃ vratapatir asi | &c.

MS. Sansk. c. 133(2) [fols 6-9]

Contents

Summary of Contents: A letter in Sanskrit from Ācārya Vallabhajī Nandaśarman, son of Ācārya Haridanta Nandaśarman, written to Professor Max Müller in 1893 from Rājkot, Kāṭhiāwār, asking for a copy of the second edition of his Ṛg-veda.

Language(s): Sanskrit

Incipit: śrīśojayati | śrīpañcakayuktānāṃ bhaṭṭopādhiṃ dhārayatāṃ vividhavidyāviśāradānāṃ vidvanmaṃḍalimaṃḍanānāṃ Śarmaṇyadeśotpannānāṃ Iglāṃḍadeśasthitijuṣāṃ Mokṣamūlaramahodayānāṃ karakamalayor idaṃ vijñaptipatram Ācāryopākhyaharidantanaṃdaśarmasunoḥ Ācāryopākhyavallabhajīnaṃdaśarmoṇaḥ Jīrṇadurganivāsino ’pi Rājyadurgasthītimataḥ samullasatutarāṃ | sam ubhayatra aparaṃ ca | sāṃprataṃ sabhāṣyam Ṛgvedapustakaṃ dvitīyayā ’vṛtyāṃkitam asti tatrabhavadbhiḥ bhavadbhir ity āgataṃ naḥ śrutipathaṃ | &c.
Explicit: saṃvat 1949 ⟨1893⟩ vaiśākhaśukla 5 bhṛgau sane 1893 (?) aprelatā 21 Rājyadurge | asmy ahaṃ datapariśramaklamaparihārapūrvakakṣamā lābhabobhavān | svahasto mama Ācāryopākhyaharidantanaṃdaśarmasūnor Vallabhajīnaṃdaśarmaṇaḥ

MS. Sansk. c. 133(3) [fols 10-11]

Contents

Summary of Contents: A letter from A. Rañganāthācārya, Sanskrit Pandit at the High School of the Rāja of Veṅkaṭagiri, Nellore, Madras Presidency, to Professor Max Müller, enclosing a poem of thanks for the gift of a copy of the second edition of his Ṛg-veda, dated May 18, 1893.

Language(s): Sanskrit

MS. Sansk. c. 133(4) [fols 14]

Contents

Three verses celebrating Śiva, Brahma, and Viṣnu.

Language(s): Sanskrit

MS. Sansk. c. 133(5) [fols 15-16]

Contents

Summary of Contents: The Gāyatrī verse with a translation and some remarks in English on its sacredness and mystery. F. 17 contains some remarks on Arabic conjunctions by the same hand.

Language(s): Sanskrit and English

Additional Information

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1620 (1–5), pp. 323-324

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. 1620 (1–5), pp. 323-324

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