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cxiv General Introduction, Part II. : in part by Whitney
H. This manuscript, again, belongs to the India Office Library (No. 23 1 ;
old No. 1 1 37; Catalogue, p. 37). It contains only the first six books,
and is handsomely but rather incorrectly written. It has no date, but its
accentuation was added in a.d. 1708. Its mode of marking the accent
varies : see below.
LManuscripts collated after publication of the text. — The following
descriptions also were written out by Whitney, except those of mss. R.
and T., which have been supplied by the editor.j
The above are all the manuscripts known to have been in Europe in
1853 ; and upon them alone, accordingly, the printed text was founded.
Those that follow have been since collated, and their readings are reported
in
the notes to the translation.
0. In the possession at present of the Munich Library, but formerly of
Prof. M. Haug (to whom they belonged at the time of their collation), are
a parcel of Atharvan manuscripts containing a complete sa7'>ikitd-\.ext,
with a pada-Xext of six books, variously divided and bound together,
and in part mixed with other texts. The sa7'nhitd-X.ext is designated as
above : it is in five parts : i. books i.-v., on European paper, 8^ x 3 in.,
each book separately paged. The date at the end, gake 1737 (= a.d. 181 5)
may be that of the original from which this copy is made. It is written
in a small but neat and clear hand. 2. Books vi.-xvii., 8^x3^ in., written
in a good sizeable hand, by a Mamnaji ; dated sainvat 1690 (a.d. 1634)
the paper is in parts badly damaged, so as hardly to hold together, and
of two leaves in book xii. only fragments remain. It makes great use of
the virdma, and of w as annsvara-%\gx\. It numbers the verses only in
vargas, making no account of the hymns (sukias) ; nor does it notice the
prapdthaka division. 3. Book xviii., 9^ X 5 in. ; in a large regular hand;
dated qake 1735 (a.d. 1 81 3). When collated, it was bound in one volume
•w\\.\i pada-vci%. of i.-iii. before it, and samhita of xx. after it. 4. Book xix.,
bound up with i. (samhita i.-v.), and in all respects agreeing with it, save
that the (copied .') date is two years later ; both are works of the same
copyist. 5. Book xx., bound in (as above noted) after 3. The size is
8^ X 4J^ in., and it is dated qakc 1735 (a.d. 1813).
Op. This designates the /a^a-text of the Haug or Munich manuscripts,
as above described. They include books i.-iv., xviii., and xx., in three
divisions : i. books i.-iii., bound up (as noted above) with the samhitdtext
of xviii. and xx. The books are paged separately, but all written by
one hand ; the date at the end is ^ake 1733 (a.d. 181 1) ; size 9 x 4^ in.
The hand is large and clear, and the text (corrected by the accentuator)
very correct. 2. Book iv. : size 8x4 in.; date ^ake 1736 (a.d. 1814).
3. Books xviii. and xx., bound with the preceding, and of same size;