Report on the search for Sanskrit manuscripts in the Bombay Presidency during the year 1882-83 / by Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar.

  • Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar
Date:
1884
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Credit: Report on the search for Sanskrit manuscripts in the Bombay Presidency during the year 1882-83 / by Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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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 Sastrins employed for collecting manuscripts and cataloguing private libraries. Number of manuscripts purchased in Gujarat and tlie 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 pur¬ chased 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 I.—VEDAS. Under the head of Vedas including Upanishads are entered two complete copies of the V&jasaneya Samhit4, one in each section, (Nos. 12, 13 and 495), and one of the Pada text of the K&nva S&kM of that Veda, (No. 489). Nos. 3 and 4 are complete copies of two of the four principal song-books of the S&ma Veda. We have also in this class manu¬ scripts of eight out of the fourteen Kapdas or divi¬ sions of the Satapatha Br&hmana and double copies of some of them. No. 14 is a copy of a part of Uata’s BMshya or commentary on the Vajasaneya Samhit&. 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 Sarhvat year 1431 corresponding to 1375 a.d. and is one of
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