Report On Search For Sanskrit MSS Year 1882 1883

Author(s): R G Bhandarkar
Publisher: Government Central Book Depot

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been printed once in Calcutta and twice in Bombay. But in all cases I paid a good deal less than the ordinary price. One copy of the Mahâbhârata was purchased in 1879 at the rate of one rupee for a thousand Slokas, and a copy of each of ten books of the epic with commentaries at the rate of Rs. 1-8-0. In this year's collection in the Gujarat section there are manuscripts of eleven books, two of which from the dates given in the colophon appear to be 300 years old. The others also look as old though they bear no dates. They were paid for at the rate of Rs. 1-8-0 ; (Nos. 56---- 67.) In the Maratha section there is a copy of the whole of the Mahâbhârata with the exception of the Śântiparvan or the twelfth book, and a copy of the Harivamsa ; (Nos. 565, 566 and 579). These are about two hundred years old, and the price paid was Rs. 1-12-0 per thousand, which was the uniform rate at which a large lot of manuscripts was purchased at Nâsik. In this class there are also manuscripts of the Vâsishtha Râmâyaņa, the Mârkandeya, the Vishņu and the Vâmana Purâņas, and of a good many Mâhâtmyas of shrines or rivers, such as the Mahấtmya of Jagannatha in Orissa, of which we have two copies, one engraved on Tâla leaves and the other written on paper, and the Prabhâsa Mâhâtmya.
CLASS IV.DHARMAŚÂSTRA OR RELIGIOUS
AND CIVIL LAW.
As belonging to the Smriti branch of the literature of the Hindu Law, religious and civil, I have to announce the acquisition of a valuable commentary on the Manu Smriti by Raghavânanda, (No. 110). There are also old copies of the Yâjñavalkya Smriti and of Vijñâneśvara's commentary on it, the Mitâkshara, one of which was transcribed in Samvat