Manuscript copies of printed books

[Michael Witzel]

> In addition I have seen, in the Nepal National Archives, a 19th century handwritten Devanagari  copy of a printed Vedic text, the Katyayana Srautasutra (Kātyāyana Śrautasūtra) edited in Nagari by Albrecht Weber in 1859; the MS included his notes (in parentheses) referring to quotes from the Vajasaneyi Samhita (Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā).
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> Cheers,
> MW>
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> On Mar 22, 2012, at 8:56 PM, Jean-Luc Chevillard wrote:
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>> Cher Emmanuel,
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>> inside the Pondicherry EFEO collection of MSS,
>> the MS numbered EO-0541,
>> which is an incomplete copy of the கணக்கதிகாரம் [kaṇakkatikāram]
>> was copied from a book
>> published in "pirapava ((varuṣam)) paṅkuṉi ((mācam))"
>> by cuppiramaṇiya aiyar
>> in his "vittiyāvilācamuttirākṣaracālai"
>> which seems to correspond to march-april 1868.
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>> I have been able to directly compare the MS and a PDF of the printed book.
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>> I originally thought the book to have been published in 1927-1928,
>> but after seeing the MS copy this seems unlikely :-)
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>> -- Jean-Luc Chevillard
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> Michael Witzel
> witzel at fas.harvard.edu
> <www.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/mwpage.htm>
> Wales Prof. of Sanskrit &
> Director of Graduate Studies,
> Dept. of South Asian Studies, Harvard University
> 1 Bow Street,
> Cambridge MA 02138, USA
> 
> phone: 1- 617 - 495 3295, 496 8570, fax 617 - 496 8571;
> my direct line:  617- 496 2990









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