Varanasi

Saraswati Bhawan Library, Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya, ms. 30664

A Descriptive Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts Acquired for and Deposited in the Sanskrit University Library (Sarasvati Bhavana) Varanasi During the Year 1791-1950, Vol. 8, 1962, No. 30664 [ABC 17; B 1049] [Ha 16: 3425-C8; FB F45/3]

Siglum: V1^D
Details: paper, Devanagari, 19 fol., adhyāya 5

Saraswati Bhawan Library, Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya, ms. 32673

Siglum: V2^D
Details: paper, Devanagari, 85 fol. (1-28, 30-85, 88), adhyāya-s 1-4, saṃvat 1777 (= 1720/1721 CE)

Saraswati Bhawan Library, Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya, ms. 33185

Details: paper, Devanagari, fol. 1-112 (fol. 57 missing)
Remarks: The ms. has a very new appearance. Copies were not acquired.

Saraswati Bhawan Library, Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya, ms. 33186

Siglum: V3^D
Details: paper, Devanagari, 110 fol., compl.
Remarks: This may be a ms. used by Gangadhara Shastri Tailanga (V2_E). Cf. Kumaon.

Saraswati Bhawan Library, Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya, ms. 33244

Siglum: V4^D
Details: paper, Devanagari, saṃvat 1592 (= 1536), 20 fol., adhyāya 5
Remarks: This ms. has been used by Gangadhara Shastri Tailanga (cf. V2_E, “bhūmikā”).

Saraswati Bhawan Library, Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya, ms. 33245

Siglum: V5^D
Details: paper, Devanagari, 9 fol. (6-14), incompl. (middle of 1.1.2 to 1.1.27)

Saraswati Bhawan Library, Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya, ms. 94461

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts Acquired for and Deposited in the Sampurnanand Sanskrit University (Sarasvati-Bhavana) Library, Varanasi during the years 1951-1981, Vol. 8,2: Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika Manuscripts, 1995, No. 94461 [Ha 16: 2005-511]

Siglum: V6^D
Details: paper, Devanagari, 20 fol., incompl. (up to 1.2.1)

Saraswati Bhawan Library, Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya, ms. 94546

Siglum: V7^D
Details: paper, Devanagari, 153 fol., incompl. (up to the middle of 4.2.35)

Saraswati Bhawan Library, Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya, ms. 94615

Siglum: V8^D
Details: paper, Devanagari, 6 fol., Trisūtrībhāṣyam

Saraswati Bhawan Library, Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya, ms. 96569

Siglum: V10^B
Details: paper, Bengali, 4 fol., Trisūtrībhāṣya.

Saraswati Bhawan Library, Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya, ms. 97821

Siglum: V11^D
Details: paper, Devanagari, 6 fol., Trisūtrībhāṣya

Saraswati Bhawan Library, Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya, ms. number unknown

Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Sanskrit College Library Benares, Allahabad 1878, No. 397 (p. 190) [ABC 14; B 0084]
= NCC, p. 279a, “SB. 190”
= A Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of the Benares Sanskrit College, Published as a Supplement to The Pandit, Nyāyavaiśeṣika mss., Vol. VII-IX, Benares 1872-1874, Bundle 66, No. 2 (Vol. VIII, p. 185) [ABC 13; B 0081] [TUUB Ci XII 29]
= NCC, p. 278b, “Ben. 185 (inc.)”
= CC, p. 311b, “Ben. 185”

Details: Devanagari, 4 fol.

Government Sanskrit College Benares (predecessor of Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya)

A Contribution towards an Index to the Bibliography of the Indian Philosophical Systems, by Fitzedward Hall, Calcutta 1859, The Nyāya Philosophy, No. II (p. 20) [ABC 112; B 0370] [FB Ph I 1:39]
= NCC, p. 279a, “Hall p. 20”
= CC, p. 311b, “Hall p. 20”

Details: “attributed to Vātsyāyana the r̥ṣi”; 96 fol., 3400 śloka-s; Ben. Coll. (= Government College at Benares)
Remarks: This ms. may have been the ms. used by the editor of the editio princeps (C1_E) which was published in 1864-1865 (see next entry).

Government Sanskrit College Benares (predecessor of Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya)

Details: “correct ms.”
Source of Information: NBh C1_E (cf. Foreword)

Government Sanskrit College Benares (predecessor of Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya)

Details: complete, undated, not very old nor very correct ms.
Source of Information: NBh V2_E (cf. “bhūmikā”)

Udasin Sanskrit Vidyalaya, Meer Ghat (near Dasaswamedh Ghat), bundle no. 1, ms. no. not available

Details: paper, Devanagari, 31 fol., 22 × 10, good condition
Presumed source of information: unpublished NAMAMI database

Collection of Meru Shastri, previously the head of the Peshva chief council, Pune, living in Benares

Details: complete, correct, undated and worn ms., written by the owner
Remarks: A transcript of this ms. was utilized in NBh V2_E (cf. “bhūmikā”)

Collection of Prem Nath

A Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts in Private Libraries of the North-Western Provinces, Part II, Allahabad 1877, Logical Philosophy, No. 34 (p. 38-39) [ABC 232; B 0756 ] [FB: F45/17]
= CC, p. 311b, NP. I, 38
= NCC, p. 279a, NP. I. 38

Details: paper, Devanagari, 8 fol.
Remarks: Part II old series = Part I new series (1877). The catalogue states that the ms. is old and apparently correct.

Collection of Durga Bai

A Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts in the North-Western Provinces, Part VI, Allahabad 1881, Nyāya Śāstram, No. 2 (p. 38-39) [ABC 232; B 0756 ] [FB: F45/17]
= CC, p. 311b, NP. VI, 38
= NCC, p. 279a, NP. VI. 38

Details: paper, Devanagari, 43 fol., very old and very correct, complete

Collection of Brahma Gopal Bhaduri, Bundle no. 1, ms. no. unknown

Details: paper, Bengali, 155 fol., compl.
Remarks: Brahma Gopal Bhaduri’s father, Sudhir Ranjan Bhaduri, donated his mss. to Sarasvati Bhavan Library at certain conditions, which were not fulfilled. After litigation the mss. were returned to Brahma Gopal and his two sons, Jayant Kumar and Hemant Kumar. They are nowadays in their care. The collection has been visited by several project participants and associates between 2001 and 2011.
Source of information: personal communication by Suryakant Yadav, Head librarian, Sampurnanand Sanskrit University; presumably, the unpublished NAMAMI database

Collection of Kavīndrācārya Sarasvatī

Kavindracharya List, ed. R. Ananta Krishna Sastry, Baroda 1921, no. 166 (p. 4).

Details: “Gautamasūtra Bhāṣyasahita”.
Remarks: Ja3^D and L1^D bear the typical ownership phrase with which the mss. of Kavindracharya’s collection were marked.

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