MS. Sansk. e. 45

MSS. Sansk. e.

NOTE: This record has yet to be fully checked.

Vivāhakarman, 19th cent.?

Fragment of a manual of domestic rites, based on the Pāraskara Gṛhya Sūtra, and treating chiefly of marriage rites

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ‖ śrīyajñapuruṣāya namaḥ ‖ oṃ athāto gṛhyasthālīpākānāṃ karma darbhaiḥ parisamūhya gomayenopalipya | &c. F. 3v: iti kuśāṃḍī ‖ atha vivāhakarma prārabhyate ‖ oṃ ṣaḍ arghyā bhavaṃty ācāryya | &c.

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: iv + 46

Dimensions (binding): 22.2 × 12.4 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

History

Origin: 19th cent.?

apparently not earlier than the middle of the 19th century.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 23).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:

Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1071, p. 101

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. 1071, p. 101

Funding of Cataloguing

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