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MS. Sansk. e. 64

MSS. Sansk. e.

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Mānava Dharmaśāstra, 19th cent.?

Contents

The Mānava Dharmaśāstra, or the Institutes of Manu.

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: o svasti ǁ śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ǁ oṃ namo bhagavate Vāsudevāya ǁ ǁ oṃ svayambhuve | &c. In I, 44b the MS. reads matsyāś ca kacchapāḥ, I, 46a udbhijās taravaḥ, I, 61d mahātmānomitaujasaḥ, I, 64cd triṃśatkalo muhurtas syād ahorātraṃ tu tāvatā ǁ, I, 89d samādiśet, I, brahmavādinaḥ, I, 106cd idaṃ yaśasyaṃ satatam idaṃ naiśśreyasaṃ paraṃ ǁ, I, 109v saṃpūrṇaphalabhāk smṛtaḥ.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: ii + 124 + ii
Dimensions (binding): 15.2 × 22.5 cm.

Hand(s)

Śaradā.

History

Origin: 19th cent.?

saṃvat 32 aśvavati 9 parataḥ 10 śanau | The appearance of the MS. is quite modern, and probably therefore the date is a. d. 1857.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 187). Memorandum on original wrapper (f. ii), ‘K 19,’ i. e. Kaśmīr.

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1484, p. 276

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. 1484, p. 276

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