पृष्ठम्:बृहद्देवता.djvu/१३

Introduction] THE NITIMANJARĪ MSS. [xvii of Mitra's Brhaddevata MSS. had belonged to his 'travelling Pandit,' but had been sold after Mitra's death along with the rest. This was perhaps r7, the description of which as another MS., pustakantaram, would thus be explained. 8. m¹. This MS., which partly belongs to the B group, has already been described as No. 9 of group A. 5. The Nitimañjarī MSS. As the Nitimañjari¹ quotes very largely-to the extent of about 180 ślokas from the Brhaddevatã, I considered it advisable to collate all the MSS. of that work accessible to me. Mr. A. B. Keith very kindly undertook to constitute a text of these passages from four MSS." (abed), which text I designate by n in the critical notes. To these four were after- wards added three other MSS. (gh m), from which Mr. Keith furnished me with supplementary collations. When I give various readings from the Nītimañjarī, I indicate the particular MS. in parentheses; thus 'n (m),' 'n (b),' &c. I now append a brief account of these Nitimañjari MSS. based on Mr. Keith's notes. 1. a. Prof. Kielhorn's MS., now in the University Library at Göttingen, is a copy (made in 1869) of a codex written in 1778 A.D. It contains all the eight Astakas complete. 2. b. India Office Library, No. 1649, dating from about 1750, contains the first four Astakas only. 3. c. India Office Library, No. 966, dating from about 1650, contains Aştakas 3-5 (3 being in a different hand). 4. d. India Office Library, No. 966, date about 1650; contains Aṣṭakas 2, 5, 6, 7, all in one hand. Astakas 2 and 6 are fragmentary. 5. g. This and the following MS. have the appearance of being a single codex, but are in reality two fragmentary MSS. They belong to the Government Sanskrit College, Benares, having been sent by Mr. Ralph Griffith to Max Müller, among whose papers they were found after his death. g contains Aṣṭakas i-v. 13, its date being probably about 1600 A.D. 6. h. Contains Aṣṭakas ii. 9-viii, and is dated samvat 1684 (= A.D. 1627). 7. m. This MS. belonged to Max Müller, and is now in the Tokyo 1 On this work see Kielhorn, Indian Anti- quary, v. 116; Göttinger Nachrichten, 1891, p. 181 f.; Peterson, Second Report, 1883-4, p. 8; A. B. Keith, JRAS., 19co, pp. 127- 136; Sieg, Sagenstoffe des Rgveda, Stuttgart, C 1902, pp. 37-41. 2 See Appendix v, p. 134 f. 3 Of these Mr. Keith gives a short account in the JRAS., 1900, p. 127.