[South Indian Sanskrit MS 038, Whish MS 37] Taittirīya-Prātiśākhya and Tribhāṣyaratna

Taittirīya-Prātiśākhya and Tribhāṣyaratna

Language – Sanskrit

Date – [1800?]
Palm leaf; 8 or 9 lines on a folio.

Winternitz notes that the Parthiva year in which the manuscript was copied (see below) probably corresponds to 1766 CE, or possibly to 1825-26 CE.

The manuscript consists of the text of the Taittirīya-Prātiśākhya, followed by the text of the Tribhāṣyaratna, a commentary on the Taittirīya-Prātiśākhya.

Text of the Taittirīya-Prātiśākhya begins: atha varṇasamāmnāyaḥ | atha navāditas samānākṣarāṇi | dve dve savarṇe hrasvadīrghe | na plutapūrvaṃ | ṣodaśādita svarāḥ | śeṣo vyañjanāni, etc.

It ends: saṃsadaṃ gacched ācāryyasaṃsadam iti || atha catasro dvādaśa || iti dvitīyapraśnaḥ prātiśākhye samāptaḥ || hariḥ om śubham astu ||

Text of the Tribhāṣyaratna begins: bhaktiyuktaḥ praṇamyāhaṃ gaṇeśacaraṇadvayaṃ gurūn api girān devīm idaṃ vakṣyāmi lakṣaṇaṃ | vyākhyānaṃ prātiśākhyasya vīkṣya vārarucādikaṃ | kṛtan tribhāṣyaratnaṃ yat bhāsate bhūsurapriyaṃ | etc.

It ends: iti tribhāṣyaratne prātiśākhyavivaraṇe dvitīyapraśne dvādaśoddhyāyaḥ || samāpto dvitīyapraśnaḥ || hariḥ oṃ || śrīmatpārtthivavatsare madhuṛtau māse madhau śyāmaḻe pakṣe proṣṭhapadarkṣake kavidine dvādaśyupetehani | granthaś cottararatnaśabdamiḻitaśrīmattribhāṣyābhidha śrīmad-Veṃkusudhīvareṇa likhitaś Śauṇḍena śāstrottame || hariḥ om śrīgurubhyo namaḥ ||

South Indian Sanskrit / Whish Manuscript Collection.

See ’A catalogue of South Indian Sanskrit manuscripts (especially those of the Whish Collection) belonging to the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland’ by M. Winternitz, with an appendix by F. W. Thomas (London: RAS, 1902) p.44-45. Go to http://tinyurl.com/j3tkdwj for a digital copy of this catalogue.

J. L. Whish, gift of manuscripts collected by his brother C. M. Whish, July 1836.

Text in Sanskrit; Grantha script.