Notices of Sanskrit Manuscripts
by Rajendralala Mitra | 1871 | 921,688 words
These pages represent a detailed description of Sanskrit manuscripts housed in various libraries and collections around the world. Each notice typically includes the physical characteristics, provenance, script, and sometimes even summaries of the content of the Sanskrit manuscripts. The collection helps preserve and make accessible the vast herit...
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82 vaisvadevikaha-varunapraghasi Colophon. iti kalpasutresvekadasah prapathako'dhyayasca | samapto'yam granthah | visayah | 1 prapathake, prayanya bhilavaha - prstha sadahakathanam | 2, abhijitkharasama- maha- vratoktih | 2, visvajidu - vratya somadikathanam | 4, vaisvadevikaha- varunapradhasi- kaha-sakamedha-sanasiryyapavyabhisecanoya-dasapeyadikathanam | 5, punaloma- sarvastamapacitindralomadikathanam | 6, gargaciracahosvamedhatriratra-vaitriratra- cchandogapavamana triratradikathanam | 7, caturvi raha - jamadagnyaha-jaha vaha- vasisthahadipancasaradiyaprata saptaratradikathanam | 8, kakubdasaratraha- visvajidatiratra navama hakusu ruvinda-pancaraca cchandogadasaracadikathanam | ra, trayodasaratra-visalahadi vistatyadikathanam | 10, madhye prsthagraha- cchando gadasahadikathanam | 11, purastatprsta - cchandogaprathamahadi-sarakhatatrayadi- nirdesaya | | No. 655. sulbasutram, bodhayaniyam | Substance, country paper, 82 x 37 inches. Folia, 8. Lines, 14 on a page. Extent, 329 s/lokas. Character, Nagara. Date deposit, Queen's College, Benares. Appearance, old. Prose. correct. ? Place of Generally Sulva Sutra, Bodhayaniya. Bodhayana's aphorisms on the formation of various kinds of fire altars, and the positions which the priests and sacrificers are to occupy around them. The work embraces eight chapters (Patalas.) The MS. is imperfect, the latter portion of the 4 th and the beginning of the 5 th chapters being wanting. Contents: 1, Area meet for the altar ; 2, the number of bricks necessary for the altar, and the proper places for the different priests around it; 3, the receptacle for the fire to be made of bricks in the form of a hawk ; 4 and 5, formation of the altar like the nave of a wheel &c. ; 6, formation of the altar like the wheel of a chariot; 7, formation of quadrangular altars; 8, altars for burning grounds. Beginning. atheme'gnicayastesam bhumeh parimanaviharan vyakhyasyamah | yathangulipramanam caturdasanavacatustrimsattila ityaparam dasangulamityadi | End. dvadasenestakah karayetta samarthyah padyascasvamedhikasyah purusabhyasa narali- pradesanam prakrto va trigunakhistavo'gnirbhavatyekavimso'gnibhavatiti tadubhayam brahmana mubhayam brahmanamiti | srastamah patalah |