Descriptive Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts In Madras Vol 01 Part 01

SR No.: 020674
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: M Sheshgiri Shastri
Publisher: Government Press Madras
Publication Year: 1901
Total Pages: 118
Language: English
Classification: Catalogue
File Size: 6 MB

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TIE SANSKRIT MANUSCRIPTS.
There is a Bhūrja manuscript of the Rgvēda which is more than five hundred years old and was discovered by Dr. Bühler. In the manuscript the Udātta alone is marked, and that by a perpendicular stroke ; and the same is the case with one of the two schools of the Maitrayani samhita. (Weber's Hist. of Ind. Lit., p. 314). There are two manuscripts in the Library in which this notation is adopted. This notation is more scientific than the cxisting one.
Generally the same accentuation is adopted both in the Rgvīda and the Yajur Vēda. The whole of the ten Mandalas of the Rgvēda, and the Samhitā and the major portions of the Brāhmaşas of the Yajur Vēdas are accented; and many of the remaining Brāhmaṇas and generally the Upanişads are not accented.
Beginning of Astaka III:
हरिः ओं ॥ प्र य आरुः शितिपृष्ठस्य धासेरा मातरा विविशुस्मृप्त वाणीः । परिक्षिता पितरा सं चरेते प्र सोते दीर्घमायुः प्रयः ॥ End:
स क्षेपयत् स पोषयद्वद्वाजस्य सातय उसैधि पृत्सुनौ वृधे ॥ 27 ॥ . . . . इदमुत्यत् सम्यक्त्रवन्ति सुप्रतीके षट् ॥
For an explanation of this mnemonical formula see p. 11. Colophon:-तृतीयाष्टकः समाप्तः ॥ Beginning of Astaka I:
अग्निमीले पुरोहितं यज्ञस्य देवमृत्विज । होतारं रत्नधातमम् ॥
End:
(Last two leaves in this Aptaka are wanting.)
प्र या घोरे भगवाणे न शोभे यया वाचा यजति पजियो वा । प्रेषयुर्न विद्वान् ॥ 22 ॥