[South Indian Sanskrit MS 007, Whish MS 7] Hālāsyamāhātmya

Language-Sanskrit
Date[1800?]

Text consists of the Hālāsyamāhātmya of the Agastyasaṃhitā of the Skanda-purāṇa, in 71 chapters.

The text begins: avighnam astu | śuklāṃbaradharaṃ viṣṇuṃ śaśivarṇāñ caturbhujam | prasannavadanan dhyāyet sarvavighnopaśāntaye | namas sundaranāthāya tasmai hālāsyavāsine | catuṣṣaṣṭividhā līlā yena pratyakṣitāḥ kṣitau | śrīmatsundaranāthasya devīṃ śapharalocanāṃ | kalaye hṛdaye nityaṃ kadaṃbavanavāsinīṃ | etc. …. vakṣye purātanaṃ puṇyaṃ śrīmaddhālāsyasañjñitaṃ | śravaṇāt sarvapāpaghnaṃ vedāntesu prakāśitaṃ || … deśakālavidhānajñā Vasiṣṭhādhyā munīśvarāḥ | Vasiṣṭho Vāmadevaś ca Gautamo Varuṇo Bhṛguḥ | Bodhāyanaḥ Kāśyapaś ca Yājñavalkyaḥ Parāśaraḥ | Bharadvājoṃgirā Atriḥ Kutsaś Śaktiś Śuko mahān | Vedavyāsaḥ Kahoḻaś ca Vālmīkiḥ Kuṃbhasaṃbhavaḥ | Sanatkumāras Sanakas Sanātanasanandanau | Pulastyaḥ Pulando Gargo Viśvāmitraś ca Nāradaṃ (sic) | ity ādyā munayas sarve jñānino brahmavittamāḥ | snātvā sarveṣu tīrttheṣu jñānavāpyādikeṣu ca | jñātvā vināyakān sarvān etc.

Text ends: sarvas tarati durgāṇi sarvo bhadrāṇi paśyati | sarvas satgatim āpnoti sarvasya bhavitā sukhaṃ || iti śrīmatskānde mahāpurāṇe agastyasaṃhitāyāṃ śrī-hālāsyamāhātmye kadaṃbavanapraveśo nāma ekasaptatimoddhyāyaḥ || śivāya namaḥ || hariḥ oṃ .. etc.

An abstract of the contents of the work is given on ff.11 seqq.

South Indian Sanskrit / Whish Manuscript Collection.

See ’A catalogue of South Indian Sanskrit manuscripts (especially those of the Whish Collection) belonging to the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland’ by M. Winternitz, with an appendix by F. W. Thomas (London: RAS, 1902) p.7-8. Go to http://tinyurl.com/j3tkdwj for a digital copy of this catalogue.

J. L. Whish, gift of manuscripts collected by his brother C. M. Whish, July 1836.

Text in Sanskrit; Grantha script.