MS. Sansk. e. 44*

MSS. Sansk. e.

NOTE: This record has yet to be fully checked.

Maṇdalabrāhmaṇa Upaniṣad, 18th cent.?

The Maṇdalabrāhmaṇa Upaniṣad, in twenty-four small sections, accented by means of the horizontal stroke beneath the line

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ | yad etan maṃḍalaṃ tapati tan mahad ukthaṃ tā ṛcaḥ sa ṛcāṃ loko ’tha yad | &c.

Explicit: so ’mṛto bhavati mṛtyur hy asyātmā bhavati ‖ 23 ‖ neva vā ‘idam agre sad āṣīn neva sad āset ‖ 14 ‖ iti Maṃḍalabrāhmaṇaṃ |

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: ii + 13

Dimensions (binding): 21.0 × 13.0 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

History

Origin: 18th cent.?

probably end of 18th cent.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 17).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:

Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1003, p. 71

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. 1003, p. 71

Funding of Cataloguing

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