[South Indian Sanskrit MS 176, Whish MS 191] Taittirīya-Samhitā

Taittirīya-Samhitā

Language – Sanskrit

Date – [1800?]
Palm leaf; from 14 to 16 lines on a folio. Manuscript consists of the Taittirīya-Saṃhitā, in 7 Kāṇḍas, the Saṃhitā-Pāṭha, complete, unaccented. The first 3 folios contain a table of contents indicating the start of the Praśnas and Kāṇḍas. Winternitz notes that there is an entry by C. M. Whish dated ‘December 1831’, and that the Vyaya year immediately preceding 1831 is 1826-27 CE. He thinks the MS may have been written in that year, or in 1766-67 CE. Text begins: śuklāṃbaradharaṃ viṣṇuṃ śaśivarṇañ caturbhujaṃ | prasannavadanau dhyāyet sarvavighnopaśāntaye | śrīgurubhyo namaḥ || śrīrāmacandrāya namaḥ || oṃ iṣe tvorjje tvā vāyava sthopāyava stha, etc. Kāṇḍa I ff.1-32, Kāṇḍa II ff.33-68, Kāṇḍa III ff.69-88, Kāṇḍa IV ff.89-116, Kāṇḍa V ff.117-155, Kāṇḍa VI ff.156-193, Kāṇḍa VII ff.194-226. It ends: yonis samudro bandhuḥ || vyāttam avahad dvādaśa ca || gāvo gāvas siṣāsanti …. catuḥpañcāśat || gāvo yonis samudro bandhuḥ | hariḥ om śubham astu śrīgurubhyo namaḥ śrīrāmāya namaḥ|| kṛṣṇārpaṇam astu || samvatsare vyaye bhānau kannyārāśīm upeyuṣi | ayane dakṣiṇe pakṣe site vāre bṛhaspateḥ | anūrādhābhidhe tāre caturtthītithisaṃyute | Rāmakṛṣṇasya putreṇa rāmabhaktena dhīmatā | Raghunāthena viduṣā likhitaṃ vedapustakaṃ | abaddhaṃ vā etc. …. kṣantum arhanti santaḥ || 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.233-234. 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.