This manuscript is held at the University of Göttingen. It was comissioned by Franz Kielhorn and received in 1874 from Nānā Shāstrī at Sāgar. It is documented in a letter between government officials, dated the 15th of August 1876; in the letter, it is stated that two copies of the Harikárikávyákhyána by Helárája (grammar) have been sent to Kielhorn (Gough 1878, 203). The archetypical manuscript from which this manuscript was copied is listed as having 74 folios, with 10 lines to a page, and 2000 ślokas (Kielhorn 1874, 90). The text is incomplete, starting from the beginning of the Jātisamuddeśa and breaking off in the middle of the commentary on the 15th kārikā of the Dravyasamuddeśa. The manuscript contains two copies of the text; the first (G1) is clearly a copy of the second (G2). G1 omits a large section of text corresponding precisely to the verso side of folio 27 in G2. Both G1 and G2 are bound together in book form; a page of notes in Kielhorn's hand has been pasted into the beginning of the book, listing the different sections of the Vākyapadīya and the number of verses in each, along with the manuscripts that were either known to him or that he had surveyed. From these notes, it seems that, in 1874, Kielhorn only knew of two manuscripts of the Dravyasamuddeśa – this one, and the one held at the Bhandarkar Oriental Institute. This is a transcription of G1, which is the first copy as it appears in the binding.
Title | Dravyasamuddeśa |
Commentary | Prakīrṇaprakāśa |
Author | Bhartṛhari |
Commentator | Helārāja |
Rubric | (folio 1v1)|| śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ || śrīpaṃtajalaye nama || niraṃtarāvamnāvat_ |
Incipit | (folio 1v1)yasmin samukhatām prayāti ruciraṃ kāpyaṃ tarujjṛṃbhate nedīyām mahimā masyalinavaḥ || |
Explicit | (folio 32r3)iti tata evāvādhāryaṃ ihāpi saṃbaṃdhasamuddeśe vakṣyeta kāraṇāṃtaravyudā |
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Language/Script | Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script. Bound with Kielhorn's notes in English.
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Format | pothi |
Material | paper |
Extent | 32 folios. |
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Condition | Complete, in good condition. |
Layout | 11 lines per page. Left and right margins are framed by two to four red lines. |
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Binding | Bound in book form with Kielhorn's notes. |
History | |
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Date of production | 1874. |
Place of origin | Sāgar |
Provenance | Comissioned by Franz Kielhorn from Nānā Shāstrī in Sāgar in 1874. |
Acquisition | Acquired by the University of Göttingen. |