Report On Search For Sanskrit MSS Year 1882 1883

SR No.: 020607
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: R G Bhandarkar
Publisher: Government Central Book Depot
Publication Year: 1884
Total Pages: 235
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 10 MB

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accompanying list, and the remainder, Rs. 1,042-2-9, was spent on the salaries and travelling expenses of the agents and Sâstrins employed for collecting manuscripts and cataloguing private libraries.
Number of manuscripts purchased in Gujarat and the Maratha Country.—The catalogue which forms Appendix I. of this report is divided into two sections, in the first of which are entered manuscripts collected in Gujarat and in the second those purchased in the Maratha Country. The Gujarat section comprises Nos. 1-486 and the other, Nos. 487-772. I will now give a brief analysis of the collection noticing all the particulars of a literary and historical importance which from a hasty exami. nation of the manuscripts I have been able to gather.
CLASS 1.- VEDAS. Under the head of Vedas including Upanishads are entered two complete copies of the Vâjasaneya Samhitâ, one in each section, (Nos. 12, 13 and 495), and one of the Pada text of the Kâņva Sâkhâ of that Veda, (No. 489). Nos. 3 and 4 are complete copies of two of the four principal song-books of the Sâma Veda. We have also in this class manuscripts of eight out of the fourteen Kândas or divisions of the Satapatha Brâhmaņa and double copies of some of them. No. 14 is a copy of a part of Ūata's Bhashya or commentary on the Vâjasaneya Samhitâ. The fragment begins in the middle of Chapter II. and extends up to about the end of Chapter XXI ; but a good many intermediate leaves are wanting. No. 16 is a copy of the latter part of the same work and begins with Chapter XIX. and comes down to the end, one intermediate leaf only being lost. This was transcribed in the Samyat year 1431 corresponding to 1375 A.D. and is onu of