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CATALOGUEOF THE
SANSKEIT MANUSCKIPTSIN
THE
BEITISH MUSEUM.
BY
CECIL BENDALL, M.A.LATE AN ASSISTANT IN THE BEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON; LECTURER IN SANSKRIT IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGECAIUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.;
j
PROFESSOR OP SANSKRIT IN SOMETIME FELLOW OF GONVILLE AND
PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM
ILontlon
:
SOLD AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM,Messrs.13,
LONGMANS &
CO., 39, Paternoster Itow; B.
QUAKITCH,
15, Piccadilly,
W.
;
A.
ASIIEE &
CO.,
Bedford Street, Covent Garden;Charing Cross Road;
and
KKGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TKUBNEK & CO., Patkrnostek HENRY FROWDE, Oxford Unitersity Press, Amen Corner.1902
House,
:
tOKDONPRINTEP BY GILBERT AND BIVINGTON, LIMITED,ST. John's
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e.c.
This Catalogue of the Sanskrit MSS. in by Professor Bendall,
the
British
Museum
has been compiled'of
late a Senior Assistant in the
Departmentin
Oriental Prinjjed
Books and MSS.
The system
of
transliteration
followed
its
pages
is
mainly
that adopted in the Catalogue of Sanskrit Printed Books, and the general arrangementofits
contents
is
in
agreement with the other catalogues of Oriental MSS.
in the
British
Museum.
ROBERT
K.
DOUGLAS,MSS.
Keeper of the Department of OrientalPrinted Books and
British Mdseum,
December, 1902.
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AUTHOE'S PEEFACE.ThkCollection,
of
which
the
present
volume
describesis
the
largest
and
most from
characteristic portion,* tlioagh not of very great extent,its literary
interesting, not only
value, but also
from the variety of
its
sources.
In conformity with the general plan of the Catalogues of the Department, these
may
be
now
briefly indicated.
The Sloane
Collection, to
which sixf of the MSS. belong, was completed by Sirof the 18th century.:
Hans Sloane about the beginningTheT.principal donors(in
chronological order) are
H. Baber, who,
in
1829, presented
the
collection
of
South Indian
MSS.
marked Add. 71237136.
The
late
Professor
William "Wright, LL.D.,
AdamsNepal,
Professorin
of
Arabic
at
Cambridge, and formerly Assistant Keeper of Oriental MSS.presented a valuable and ancient series of11, 87, 88,
the
Museum, whoOr. 2
MSS. from
now numbered
107980.A,
The
late Sir
W.
Franks, Keeper of Medieval Antiquities, and Colonel S. B.
Miles, in 1873 and in 1891 respectively, made donations of several
MSS.
Thescholars:
chief
collections
acquired
by purchase were obtained from the following
Colonel PoLiEE (1741
95),
as to
whom
see note on p. 1.
Major (subsequently Colonel) Thomas Best Jervis, fromin 1843, a collection of transcripts
whom was
purchased,
on European paper of Sanskrit works on astronomy
and mathematics (Add. 14,347890).
*
i.e.
the Vedic and ordinary Sanskrit (Brahmanic) literature, forming section A. of
tlic
present volump, and
the Buddhistic, section B., pp. 225Prakrit,is
233.
The Jain
literature,
chiefly Prakrit or
Sanskrit commeutaries on
reserved for a future volume.Classified List of I^umbers.
t See the
vi
AUTHOR'S PREFACE.William Euskinb, by
whom was madeis
the large collectionas
bought
in
1868 andsuch(vol.isiii.,
marked Add. 26,337fittingly
662,in
well
known
a Persian scholar,
and
as
commemorated
the
Preface to the
Catalogue of Persian
MSS.
pp. six., XX.).
Tnin
1884-5 the compiler of the present Catalogue made a collection of
MSS.
Nepal and Northern India, some of which (Or. 3341
3364)
were, under Treasury
Sanction, sold to the Trustees.
Surgeon-Major G. H. D. Gimlettr, I.M.S., collected in Nepal some very interesting palm-leaf MSS., a portion of which (Or. 3559
3568)
were sold to the Museum.at
In
1873-74 Dr. H. Jacobi, now Professor of
Sanskrit
Bonn, collected inlate Dr.
Rajputana (Jodhpur, Josalmir, Bikaner), under the auspices of thetheseries
Buehlerof
of
MSS.
(Or.
5115
5258)of
which form the
finest individual collection
Indian
MSS. on
the shelves
the
Museum.
Most
of
theseis
are
in
some way
connected with the Jain community, of which Dr. Jacobiinvestigators.
amongdo not
the chief livingfall
Works
directly treating;
of
the Jain religion
within
the
scope of the present volume
but the works of Jain
authors
on general subjects,
and copies by Jain scribes of Brahmanical works, are amongst the most interesting
MSS. now
described.
Palseographical notes have been added to the descriptions of some of the oldest
MSS.
These notes may be thus
classified
:
On MSS. from Nepal:,,
nos. 349, 440, 536, 193, 546.
Bengal: nos. 166, 378, 195.Orissa: no. 131.
Malabar: no. 214.China: no. 541.classified thus::
The illuminated MSS. may beEpic
and Puranic works143 (Mahabharata);
nos.
99
(the;
Sussex
Ramayana),
83,
90,
97,
104 (Bhiigavata)
118a, 123.
Buddhist works: 534, 544, 542.
With the
latter class
Monsieur A. Toucher's work " L'Iconographie bouddhique"
should be compared.
It
was received toolike
late to
be utilized for the present work.
Notes on binding and the640.
are
given in the descriptions of nos. 88, 142,
AUTHOR'S PREFACE.
vusuggested by some
Aof
few notes on new points of
literary
and
political history,
the MSS., were
published* in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 189G,ibid.
pp.
215
sqq.,
and
1898, pp. 228 sqq.
Students of Jain history
may
find
new
matter under nos. 376, 382.
Mythis
indebtedness to correspondents at a distance;
is
acknowledged
in the
body of
work
and I must add a word of thanks to
my
friend Professor Blumhardt, for
frequent permission to utilize his extended knowledge of the
Aryan
vernaculars.of Sanskrit
The
indices have been arranged on the
model of the Catalogue
MSS.
in the Bodleian.
CECIL BENDALL.
A
satisfactory result of
this
publication
is
noted at
p.
120, n. 2.
CATALOGUE OF
SANSKRIT MANUSCRIPTSBEAHMANICAL LITEEATUEE.VEDIC MANUSCRIPTS. A.Ria-VEDA. Aslitaka 1 ends I.:
A.
3^f(T
^pjft inT: TWTw:
ii
^^
ii
^^ ib^b
^r
fnjrt
1.Add. 5351. Foil. 385 (original numbering by separate ashtakas) ; European book form; folio, 15 J in. by 7 in.; 12 lines ; Devanagari, dated V.S. 18S8 (A.D. 1781).[Col. Polieb.']
Similar inscriptions, with dates within the
same year, V.S. 1838 (A.D. 1781), occur at the ends of some other ashtakas. In the eighth ashtaka the numbering of the Vargas differs from that of the editions (and from most of the MSS.), owing to thevolume (Add. 5346) is bound a long letter May, 1789) from Poller to Sir Joseph Banks, a Trustee of the Museum, in which he points out that fruitless efforts had been made to obtain copies of the in several part.s Vcdas " on the Coast of Coromandol " My researches," he conof Bengal, and at Bennares." tinues, "at Awd, Lacknow, Agra and Delhy were perfectly Subsequently, hearing that copies could be had useless." from Brahmans at Jeypore with the authorization of theIn thefirst
RiGVEDA.
Samhitdpatha.
(dated 20th
See the editions of
Max
Miiller, Aufrecht,
and Rajfirama Bodase (Bombay, 1890).1
.
.
.
The
present collection of
5346ever
MSS.
(in
11 volumes, Add.
56), probably the first collection of
Vedic works
made by a European, was formed apparently about 1783, in Rajputana, by Lieut. -Col. A. L. H. Poller, anof Swiss extraction,
Raja (Pratapa-simha), he made ansovereign,j'ear,
ajjplication
to
that
officer
who
served the East India
which was granted, and "in the course of a
Company between 1759 andPoller's life (1741
1789.
Further details of
paying the Brahman transcribers at a certain rate per
95)
are given in Hoefer's Biographie
every hundred Ashtolc [a confusion of the words ashfaha
Unicerselle.
and anushluhh
?]
or Stanza,"
he " obtained the books."
B
SANSKRIT MANUSCRIPTS.insertion ofseveral
of the
doubtfully au-
thentic
hymns called hhilas? Thus the khila no. 22 in the (second)(vf%v^) occursin its usual
14 stanzas as printed in the edition of RajfiAfter rama {' Parisishtdni,' pp. 28, 29).
some namashdras the MS. concludes^fir
:
edition of Miiller
fluiv^
T
(sic) ^i?>?t
svqm wmr:
ii
place in the ashtaka, after adhyaya 3.first
The
varga of adhyaya 4 accordingly bears the30, instead of 29.
number25at their
(verses 1
and 27 are inserted regular places (occurring on fol. 371to these additions the total
13 only)
Similarly, hhilas
2.Add. 26,400. Foil. 236 (164, 65 missing, 6693, 5299, 194) 7 lines ; 3^ in. by 9 in.; excellent Nagari of 18th century. [William Eeskine.];
in this MS.).
Owingeditions.
number
of Vargas reaches 56, as against
49 of the
Thefol.
actual text of the1.
Samhitd ends atRiGVEDA.Samhitdjydtha.
383i,
7 (o^^T^TOfw).
ThenviJJ.
follows immediately the stanza ir^^3"!$, printed as stanza 5 of khilavol. iv., p.i^iflij:ii
Ashtakas5.
3,
.
.
32
4 (fragment),
by M. Miiller (ed. 2, which ^^nf ^ wq: ii
541), after
The hymnwith
The fourth Ashtakathefirst
is
incomplete, wanting
fq^Tim^*, better
known
51 leaves, a
little
in connection
first half.
It begins invi. 2. 3).
more than the adhyaya 5, varga 1
the Sdma-veda (see nos. 27, 29), occurs as
Vargas 61 63 of the present text. It is preceded by the hymn Mi)Mi ^am:) in the printed editions,
our manuscript goes on thus
67.Add. 556976. Eight volumes, bound in European fashion, quarto Nagari, written;
in several clear
hands of the 18th century.[N".
'ft
^wrr WTTurfft
n
TTrifrr ^n^^iwfiii
B.
Hamed.]
Tf
^rtfwrq
cSVTT
j^TfN^Rf^:
Mahabbabata(wanting Silnti-parvan,iSasana-parvan),pt. 3,
and the Anu-
^jrrqx^fir
"snTiTit
n'hJurl
t^
tx^^ wnffTr:^f^irnrt
i
^ir^THTW ^M^i^Mil
trrftj^
"TOt^rat
Add. 5569. A. Foil. 178 written at Benares in V.S. 1833 (A.D. 1776), Nagari, in the same clear hand, that of a Kashmiri,;
B*t[Hf*>fiTO
Then
follows the enumeration of ^^tm: as
in preceding parvans.
found in other MSS. of Halhed's.
Add. 5572.Foil. 141.Adi-parvan.Bhislima-parvan.
B.
Foil.
181253
(originally
173).
Clearly written Nagari of 18th century.'
Add. 5573. Foil. 240.Drona-parvan.
Sabhd-parvan.'
Vrittantah
'
at end.
A
table of contents (Vrittantah) concludes
the volume.
Add. 5574. 149).
Foil.
168
(1128, 140,
Add. 5570. Foil. 299.Vana-parvan.Vrittantah(^^rmpT^
A. Karna-parvan.B. Salya-parvan (inits
two
subdivisions).
and blessings on the reader'iTi'Jfq:
^r^
ng^ffo) at end.
Add. 5575. 169).
Foil.
193
(138, 1115,
Add. 5571. Foil. 219 (158, 1160).Virata- and Udyoga-parvans.
A. Satiptiha- and Strl-parvans. Sauptikaparvan* ends at fol. 196, 1. 8. The text atThethe
At the end1
of the text of the Udyoga-p, asto
*
scribe
has incorrectly written
^jfT
q j in the
margins from the beginning, and clearly this mistake lederror
of
Halhed and other users of the MS.,
The subsequent
vols.,
down
to the Udyoga-p., are in
who added
notes indicating the supposed absence of the
the same writing.
Sauptika-p.
:
;
POST-VEDIC RELIGIOUS POETRY.the end of the Stri-parvan agrees with that printed at Calcutta 1834 37, not with the
23liv.
corresponding1863.
to
adhy.
34,
fol.
114a
[Bhishma-parvan] in the
Bombay
edition of
Bombaywanting
editions.
B. Sdnti-parvan.pt. 8
Parts
1
and 2 only;
Add. 26,408. Foil. 308 (numbered464); uniform with Add. 26,401.
157
(MoJcshadharma).is
The Anusdsana-parvanthe present copy.
not contained in
Drona-parvan (fragment).
A portionAdd. 5576.Foil. 125.A. Foil.B. Foil.1
of Drona-parvan,
from the 18th
75.
AhamedhiJca-parvan.
iloka of adhyaya 89 to the 119th ^loka of adhyaya 203. (Calc. ed., vol. ii., pp. 646867.)
76106 (131). Jsramavdsika(irvr..
parvan.
Text ends with the ^loka
Add. 26,409a c.-fein^)
concluding the text in the Calcutta edition, but not contained in the Bombay text.C. Foil.
Sauptika- and two following parvans.
107 115(1 9).
Mausala-parvan.
The divisions are those of the southern recension described by Burnell, Tanj. Cat.,p. 180.
D. Foll.116 125 (110). Mahdprasthdnika- and Svargdrohana-parvans.
The Mahdprasthdnika-p ends fol. 1196, 1. 5. The Svargdrohana-p contains five adhyayasonly (not six as the editions), and conse-
In the printed editions of Bombay and Madras, the name Aishika occurs as a SM6-division of the Sauptika-parvan only. Neither of them, however, recognizes theVisoka-parvan.
quently ends with the stanza frinTT^o
.
.
_
ofH^'^ (adhyayaBombay),
5,
^loka 211 Calc.=*6. 67
A. Foil.JSTagari,
19
;
15 lines
;
14
in.
dated Saka [elapsed]
by 6| in. 1690 (A.D.
1768).
68.Add. 26,40710. Foil. 174 (numbered 40 69, 80, 85227); uniform with Add. 26,405 (no. 75, A.). [William Beskine.]Several portions of the Mahabhakata.
Sauptika-parvan, corresponding to the first nine adhyayas of the Sauptika-parvan of the
Bombay(vol.iii.,
and of the Calcutta quarto pp. 307325).edition
Colophon?mTS^oRf S4{t^ xm", with which Schlegel'sbegins, occurs here as v. 7, and hisv. 9.
somewhat coarser in style. Text begins irt 30, as in BerUn MS. (Weber,cit.).
supr.
stanza i:fT^o occurs here asof sarga 1^
The
chapter-titles do not correspond with
The text
commences with the
those in the Bengal recension, as printed byGorresio.
:iloka iw.^inpqm^, as in
the printed editions.
Colophon similar to that of KandalT., above.Date:written
Sarga 2 begins
:
V.S. 1710,at
Wed. 11th
of
Bhadra-
pada, sukla.&c., as in Benares recension.
Reign of Raj-singh at Chitor,
Oodeypore at the
instance of
Sarga 3 as in Schlegel and Gorresio.
The
^nfhirai&'f
follows vrith a picture
of
the city and proem wiiRiifi", as in printededitions.
Add. 15,297. iTawc^as VI., VII.Foil.
206,
112 of text, besides several
The
rest
of
the
Kdnda
(in
spite
of
illustrations without text at end.
Schlegel's dictum, quoted above) follows the
Kanda
VI., Yuddha or Lankd-kdnda.
numbering
of
cantos, and in the
main
at
least the text, of the
Benares recension, as
Scribe, patron, prince,
and general
style of
represented in the texts printed at
Bombay
(1881) and Madras (1864).
Kanda IT. The text begins with the invocatory stanza ^f^Tc5 (see Kanda I., above), after whichwriting same as in:
Add. 15,296. Zflwrfas
II.,
IV.
m'5n1'J^ ^ft*nrnnfHVJr:
personified intercalation
!
the local usage of the word anka apparently not to be found in any dictionary,
On
Beg.
Sanskrit or vernacular(1893), p. 89;
see
ManomohanaIxii.
Uakravarti in J. As. Soc. Beng., vol.Cal., p. 38.
and Sewell and Dikshita, Ind.the system there explained,
End.
By
a 25th ankajmi
= 21st regnal year.'
Hence, as
*aim
II
^0
II
II
Mukunda-deva (I., the only king of that name who reigned 25 years) came to the throne A.D. 1664, his 25th a7lka was'
127.Or.
A.D. 1684.
1255
Onin.
the history of
Orissa,
compare A.
Palm-leaf, of the variety generally
Stirling^ in As. Researches, xv. 294.
used in Orissa ; foil. 163 ; 4 lines; 16^ by Ii in.; date=1684 A.D. (see below).[Presented by Sie A.
The MS.century.
is
scratched in fine Nagari cha-
racters, such as
were often used in the 17th
W.
Fkanks.]
1
E.g. the
Malamasa-mahatmya
(printed),
similar in
'
The vamsdvcdi may
be, perhaps, trusted for so late aiii.,
stjle
and extent.
date as this: but see Fleet in Ep. Ind,,
pp. 336-340.
a
:
:
42
SANSKRIT MANUSCRIPTS.
128.Or. 1263a, b.
129.14 lines;
Foil.
20
;
13^
in.
Or.1
by 6
in.;
dated Samvat 1874 (A.D. 1817).[Presented by
1232. Palm-leaves43,
;
foil.
128 (numbered5 lines;
44 missing, 45in.;
129;
15 in.
Sm
A.
W.
Franks.]
by 1^
Oriya character, 18th century.
Two Mahatmias.A.Foil.
115.
Vibajo-mahatmya, from the Brahmdndapurdna.evidently the same work as that by Wilson, Mackenzie Coll., i., Legend p. 84 : " Virajakshetra Mahatmya. from the Brahmdnda Purdna of the Virajakshetra, the country 5 Cos round Jajpur in Orissa, on the bank of the Vaitarani, where a form of Durga is worshipped."
HHNdHTITW'^Bhagavata-mahatmya, from theJJttara-
This
is
described
khanda
of the
Padma-purdna.in severaledi-
Lithographed attions.
Bombay:
Begins (as in editions)
4
imf7n?o(fol.
There is a short comment margin) on 51oka i. 33 (=i. 351861).
2a,
top
Outside the
MS.
is
written in ink^ in
ed.
Bombay,
Englishcentury:
writing,
apparently of " Jajpoor in Orissa."is
the
18th
The mdhdtmya
described as a dialogue
Colophon
between Uma and Mahe^vara ; but Brahma, Nandike^vara and others appear as speakers. It consists of 29 adhyayas.
EndsB.Foil.
(fol.
I26h)II
:
1620
(originally
15).
^sTPfl^TRnt
^fir
^laansgtuir f^TftT^(HT ^rii
N^>
stqin:
II
v^]ii
^ f^iflTT^rt130.
Three leaves of index follow.
Bhagavata-mahatmya, from the Slcandapurdna.
AColl.
similar
adhyayas.
work to the preceding, in four Compare Cat. of Sk. MSS. in Sk.
Foil. 3569 (4882); 9 Add. 26,424 f. lines; 10 in. by 4 in. ; Nagari, of 17th to
Benares, p. 239.:
18th century.
Begins
Ends^janT^
Fragment of the Vaisakha-mahatmya, from
W^
the Skanda'purdna.?Rc5t^irtT^(?) nrf^inTii
it
ii
The text of this work was lithographed Bombay, in 1879,1
at
The nameof
of the
work
itself,
inserted in the subia
scriptions
the
other chapters,
here
accidentally
'
The MS.
itself,
like
all
Oriya documents, beiiig
omitted.
scratched with a
stile.
43
POST-VEDIO EELIGIOUS POETRY.The present fragment represents506, corresponding to xvii. 5
xxv.
foil.
296
132.Add. 14,368.Foil. 179 in. by 8 in.;
64 of
that
the numbering in the MS. however, xvi. 5 xxiv. 65. being, The text appears to differ somewhat in readings, as well as in arrangement, fromedition,
22 24 hues;
11^
that of the edition.
Several portions
of the
Sahyadbi-khanda,
professing to be a portion of the Skanda-
131.30 (numbered 35 65 on recto, 32 missing); 4 lines; 8 in. by 1^ in.; Nandi-nagari writing, of the 17thOr. 2087.foil.
pu/rana.
Palm-leaf;
The main
part of the work, which treats
chiefly of the sacred
century
?
topography of Western India, was printed under the editorship of J. Gerson da Cunha, Bombay 1877.
[Presented by
Ma J. -Gen.
A. Meteick.]
main text are added several supplements in the form of Mahatmyas, orthis'
To
Another fragment of the same work.
legends in connection with the foundation of
temples along the Sahyadri range.'
The present fragment extends from adhy.vi.
6 to
ix. 11.
The present MS. contains(1) Foil. 2
:
account of the Nandi-nagari writing is given by Burnell in his South Indian Palceography, ed. 2, pp. 62 sqq., and plates xx., xxi.,xxxi.a,
An
A complete copy 67. main work ( = Gerson da Cunha, pp. 1 Dated 6aka 1750 (A.D. 1828).
of the
387).
and may be supplemented by
pi. Ixx.
in the Oriental Series of the Palaeographical
Society, with the description
by Dr. Haas.is
AMS.
somewhat
peculiar
formis
noticed by Burnell or Haas,^
of j, not found in our
Another copy of the (2) Foil. 68115. purvdrdha only, copied from a MS. somewhat defective at both ends. It corresponds p. 300 of the printed text. to p. 3, 1. 3
The complete loop
doubtless a later
(3) Foil.
116
179. Supplementary matter,analogousthatto,
development for quickness in writing. The same applies to h,' which has a form approximating to a modern Nagari ^.In several letters, e.g. I, th, d, the forms of our MS. lie slightly nearer those of ordinary Deva-Nagari than those of Burnell's Table, xxi.^ The same applies to gh, where the formof our
without collective title;above.
but
apparently differing from,
described
This portion of thefollowsi.:
MS.
is
subdivisible as
MS.
agrees with that in the Palseogr. the shape ofarchaic.
98 adhyayas, apparently forming the Amaligrdma - mdhdtmya, but bearing no collective title, and further subseries
A
of
Society's plate.
On
the other hand,
m
divided as followsis
:
usually
somewhat more
{a)
Adhy.
1, 2,
Mdndavyopdhhydna.
1
These occur, however, in the facsimile which he had
Adhy. 1, which is copied from an original having considerable lacunae, begins:
before him.'
jfvrftrr:
t^t^sS
i
Bumell's specimen,isit.
pi. zxxi.(, is
difficult to follow,
as
no exact reference(2.C.),
given to the passage by him or by
Haas
who
cites
G 2
;
44
SANSKRIT MANUSCRIPTS.ment correspondsaij^jfT
ii
ttt?
f^wfiftm
'Sv?rrf^iT:
Printed separately in India.
Gangd-sahasrandmanames of Ganga, 29 of the Ka^i-khanda of the forming ch. Skanda-purana (consisting of 212 slokas), 162 sqq. of the printed and occurring atA.Foil.
1
28.
stotra.
The thousand
ft".
edition
(Bombay
1881).
148.Or.
Beg.
^PT^^T^
II
f^^
^TnT 'I'iml "^^
>rT
f^rr^
ii
2155b. Foil. 26
;
8 lines
;
11 in. by 5
in.
Colophon^fiT
bold Nagari, dated V.S. 1824 (A.D. 1767).
^^^JTTO
olfT^^^i
JiJ|l^HIH
WUia 5tnnf'SJW: xrt
fol.
7a.HUM^rtll"fol.fol.
The commentary has been printedBibliotheca Indica
5
i)
W^^lfH
86
(189097).ofis
6
^IWt
^tqsifg^oibid.fol.
10a.
The beginningfragmentary, andfaulty
our MS.carelessly
somewhat copied from aisI
7
71^ ^^^ro TRt ^t^TffO
MS.f^cirfir^ (s ic) Ti^^fl ly< fri
8
llrt.fol.
^ ^ TTflHWT
5 (sic) tto't
9
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12 a.
yTjUfd'S llacunal
1011 12
>>
%toTIHTKO
fol.
126.136.
>}
^m'o
fol.
fol. 146.
The work endsIt follows the printed text in the main,
but^ 5prf^H "mfRtwit: 3ii4
with very numerous blunders.
^ttt^t^ fj^-tr^
\
Ends:
Tift
vuA
^^
-*rt:
i
\fi(
TjKi^KWtil'
^^
surra:
ii
172.Or.
445a.i
Foil.
3 15.Or. 445c.
173.
Foil. 20, 21
;
as to size, collectio-n,
[Laghu-] Paea^aea-smriti.verses in each of the 12 adhyayas are not numbered, and it would be, therefore, a
and writing, see the last description.
The
Yama-smriti.form a collection of law-books transcribed in Telugu characters (in Or. 446 approximating to Canarese) on European paper with watermarks dated1
Or. 44.5
447
The MS.
contains the recension noticed by
18001805,
large folio;
2527
lines to a page.
No
Eggeling, Cat.
MSS.2
Ind. Off., p. 389,MS.
and
numbering of verses or sections is given. The was bought, in July 1868, from Mr. Mason.
collection1cah,
:
62
SANSKRIT MANUSCRIPTS.Begfins:
likewise printed in Gangavishnu's collection
of smritis
(Bombay, 1881).(as in printed edition):
Begins
^firwgf^
v^w^fimfiiT
The
text of the last four stanzas (with
which the varr. lectt. of the India Office MSS., noted by Eggeling, may be compared) runs as follows in our two MSS.
v^ ^^
?rw^
II
^i
^
?ft vh*^} ^Ar gi f?r^>^:
ii
iiy^T Tsrbrj^TJPTj^g
^n^r^
WW
^'t^f'iiqoiiif^
n^-
^f^oir: trth:
ii
^
\s% tH
^
Ti5ITfT5n? 3TI^TfTTw
^apc^(?)20.. ..
II
treating the subject
more
specially
from the
Cf. Sainsk.-m., p. 18.
astrological point of view.
EndsCh.
(fol.
23a)
:
iti
karnavedhanndma
See also the Catalogue of Sinhalese MSS.,p. 66.
pancamaparicch.6,
A very imperfect(very badly)present.15,at
vastravidhih, refers to the putting(foil.
edition of a text partly
on of new clothes at auspicious times
coextensive with the
present was printed
23a24).Ch.7,
Colombo in 1879, with a Sinhalese commentary partly founded on theIt wants,
vidydrambhah, corresponds partly to
however, chapters
1, 13,
ch. 6 of the
MS.
last described.10,
Compare
17 and 18 of our text, and otherwise
also Saipsk.-m., p. 21.
where the Hindu
differs.
authorities agree in prescribing the fifth yearfor a child's learning his letters.
In the absence of a complete or correct MS., and of anything like an accurate edition, nothing can be said of the date or authorship of the work, nor even of the meaning of itstitle.
Beg.f^WTfH m^lft WT^ffS f^^^T^I
The:
topic of marriage, as in the preceding(ch. 8
Title of ch. 1 (fol. 8b)^fk>1'i
MS., comes nextTTOHTlft^^:
=
foil.
2637).
q jc?*>i< t
^^^H
Ch. 2 begins
After this follow three chapters (9 11) on the outdoor life of the cultivator {krishi-,bljavapana-, dhdnyasamgraha-
vidhi).
Com-
pare the section on the Vai^yas in Samsk.-m.,p. 83.
Ch.
2,
upanishh-amanam, endsof preceding MS.).
fol.
96
(cf.
Ch. 12
(foil.
51
56)
treats of auspicious
section
43,
times for journeys,fol.
Ch.
annaprdsanam, ends
16b
(cf.
Ch. 13
(foil.
5658)
treats of lucky times
section 5 of preceding MS.).
for the erection of images of the devas.first
Ch. 4 refers to the caulaharma, or cutting or shaving of hair.
text does not specify
Begins
(fol.
16b)
:
The what devas are intended but the commentator (fol. 576. 1) instances Buddha, Vishnu, Siva.' The remaining complete chapters (14 18),'
Siibhakarma-vidhi, yatikarona-v", aurdhvamu-
khddi-nakshatra varagunah, muhurta-naksha-
On1
the subjects of these three chapters
trayam{sic), are mainly astrological67).
(foil.
58the
That
on
yatikarma has
distinctivee. g.
The equally barbarous reading bdlanam(p. 1,
reference to the Buddhist clergy,abliivrirdhaye
of the editionskrit'
stanea 2) gives a notion of
how San-
giving of the saffron robe (kashdya-vastra),fol.
documents are often reproduced in Ceylon.[sic]
626,
1.
3.
suhhdna prdeanenacf. title
edition
;
read iubhannaprd-
Theofits
last
chapter (19)
is
imperfect.
Several
sane?
of ch. 3.
stanzas correspond with those of the
:
LAW, EELIGIOUS AND
;
CIVIL.
79to pp. 68. 8 fin. of the edition in the
last
chaptere.g.
{'
samk'irnavidhih') of thefol.
Colombo
The fragments correspond&Q.2.
text;
gururvivdhe,fol.
pancame,
676.
4.
ydtrdydm with stanzas 233, 28467a. e;
and
91.
is
'd&
Bibliotheea Indica.
respectively.
The MS. terminates(corrupted) stanza(of. st.
abruptly with the
^TT*
217 of the
edition),
The marginal abbreviations of the title are ^T and oSTSBTT*, and a European owner (Erskine?) has written Kal Mala Dharm' '
beginning
Shaster
on the
first leaf.
Theand ending:o ^rarr^rgnr^ii
abbreviation, however, probably stands
for the
commonly used
title
Kala-madhava
This occurs atterminates(fol.
fol.
685.
i.,
Sinhalese interpretation of69a).
it
and with the the fragment
or -madhaviya.
204.It will
be observed that the earlier portions
of this and the precedingreligious ceremonies ofin its earlier stages.
MS.
Add. 14,362.Foil. 150 (paged by the scribeas pp. 1
(no. 201) really'
relate to the samskdras, or
sacramental
^'
294, with;
covers, &c. not paged)folio;
Hindu
80
lines
European book form,
copied
Ufe, especially
in 1829.
[T. B. Jeevis.]
Nothing appearsduction of Indian
to
have been written upeven distinctivelyPueushaethac'intamani, by Vishnu Bhatta,
to the present time on the survival or intro-
(and
Hindu) customs in Ceylon. No. 201 would seem (as already stated) to form a case ofadaptation or adoption of a Hindu work ; it is not clear how far this is the case with the present book. It may have been composed
son of Ramakrishna Sum.
A
work on domestic and other
religious
ceremonies,
and as such usually regarded
and embody customs brought with them by the Aryan settlers. The acquisition of better MSS., supplemented by local inquiries, might lead toin Ceylon,results of considerable interest.
as belonging to the dharma-sdstra class ofliterature.
The present MS., however,kdla-Jchanda,
contains the
or section dealing with the
timesseasons
andof
astronomically
determinable
theits
ceremonies,inclusionof
andin
to
this
203.Add. 26,454c.10 lines;
circumstanceCollection,
the
Jervis
a series
mathematical
and
astronomical MSS., was no doubt due.Full. 6in.;
(2124,
37, 38);
10 in. by 4 India, 18th century.
Nagari of Western [William Eeskine.]of
Fragments
of the
KalaniknatadAEYA.
Madhava-
On
times and seasons for religious proSeveral times printed.J. Jolly
cedure.1
It is not clear from descriptions of MSS. whether the other hhandas are still extant. A detailed account of the present work is Notices,' vii., to be found in Raj. Mitra's As he discusses the works of 89. pp. 187 Madhava and Hemadri, the author must have flourished later than the middle of the 14th century A.D.'
Compare
'Recht und Sitte'
(in
Biihler's
The present copy
is
also preceded
by a
Orundrisg), p. 151.
copious table of contents.
:
:
:
:
80
SANSKRIT MANUSCRIPTS.Text begins
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