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MS. Sansk. d. 134

MSS. Sansk. d.

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Mānava Dharmaśāstra, A.D. 1644.

Contents

The Mānava Dharmaśāstra, or the Institutes of Manu

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: śrīyaśodānaṃdano jayati ǁ svayaṃbhuve namaskṛtya | &c.
Explicit: bhavaty ācāravān nityaṃ yatheṣṭāṃ prāpnuyād gatiṃ ǁ iti śrīmānave dharmaśāstre Bhṛguktāyāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ dvādaśo ’dhyāyaḥ ǁ samāptaṃ dharmaśāstram idam iti ǁ

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: ii + 130
Dimensions (binding): 27.0 × 15.6 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

History

Origin: A. D. 1644.

Date, Scribe, &c.: khavyomaṃvudhirūpais tus (the akṣaras rūpais tus were covered with yellow pigment) saṃmite ’bde śubhaprade | madhau māsy asite pakṣe navamyāṃ jaivake ’hani ǁ 1 ǁ Kārṇṇādyāṃ (or ºṭyāṃ) pury athemāṃ vai mānavīṃ dharmasaṃhitāṃ | Miśracaito Haris saśvaddharinātho vyalīlikhat ǁ śubham astu Jayarāma (kanīyān avarajapaṭhanā, in marg.) rthe ǁ cha ǁ cha ǁ saṃvat 1700 caitre māsi kṛṣṇapakṣe navamyāṃ gurudine ’lekhi | The year khavyomāmbudhirūpais sammita would usually be 1400, but of what era? Probably vyoman must here be 7. It is not at all unusual for a date to be given both by words and by figures. The MS. then was written in a. d, 1644 by Harinātha (or Miśracaita Hari Saśvaddharinātha?) for (his younger brother?) Jayarāma, at Kārṇāṭī, or Kārṇādī.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 188).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1485, pp. 276-277

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. 1485, pp. 276-277

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