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MS. Sansk. d. 25

MSS. Sansk. d.

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Pāraskara Gṛhya Sūtra, A. D. 1855.

Contents

Summary of Contents: The Pāraskara Gṛhya Sūtra, described in the colophons as a ‘Sāmavedīya Kauśika,’ probably a clumsy falsification intended to make the MS. appear to be a ‘unicum,’ for there is no such work as a ‘Kauśika Sūtra of the Sāmaveda’ in existence.

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ‖ oṃ athāto gṛhyasthālīpākānāṃ karma | &c.
Explicit: triḥ prāśnāti brahmā tvā tu bra 15 śrī iti śrīsāmavedīyakauśikatṛtīyo ’dhyāyaḥ samāptaḥ ‖ 3 ‖

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper. No. of leaves: ii + 29.
Extent: + +
Dimensions (binding): 18.4 × 28.6 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

History

Origin: A. D. 1855.

saṃvat 1911 ⟨1855⟩ | The date saṃvat 1816 given by Aufrecht, l. c., is a mistake.

Provenance and Acquisition

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1045, p. 91

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. 1045, p. 91

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