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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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PREFACE TO VOLUME II. THIS volume contains notices of 266 manuscripts mostly either not mentioned in the Catalogus Catalogorum or not properly described in any descriptive Catalogue. The notices have been collected in Bengal and in Behar and include works on all subjects. They have been arranged in the alphabetical order. A classification of the works and their analysis is given below:Vedas. Works on the Samhitas and Brahmanas are very rare in these Provinces. But occasionally works subsidiary to the study of the Vedas are found here and there. Of these the Sarvanukramanivrtti, No. 248, by Sadgurucisya, has already been published in the Annecdota Oxoniensis series; Suktapratika, No. 250, gives the first word of each Sukta with its Rsi, chandah, and devata; Hanumaddurga, No. 264, affiliated to the Atharva Veda is a work on the worship of Hanuman for the purpose of attaining prowess and military glory; Anukramanika, No. 5, is the well-known work by Katyayana; Rg-Vedapraticakhyam, No. 25, by Bhagavan, Caunaka has been described in L. 902; Kandanukramanikavivaranam, No. 29, not in Cat. Cat., is an index to the Kandas or chapters of the Yajurveda with a commentary. Puranas. This volume contains a number of Mahatmyas or works on local tirthas; of these Yamunamahatmya, No. 170, is affiliated to the Padmapurana, the day sacred to the Yamuna being the second day of the waning moon in the month of Karttika; Narmadamahatmya, No. 112, is affiliated to the Revakhanda of the Skandapurana; Naimisaranyamahatmyam, No. 116, is affiliated to the same purana; Micritamahatmya, No. 163, is also affiliated to the same purana, though the interlocutors being Civa and his consort, it looks 1

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