[South Indian Sanskrit MS 020, Whish MS 19] Bhāgavata Purāṇa. Skandhas 1-9

Language-Sanskrit
Date [1800?]

Text consists of Bhāgavata Purāṇa, Skandhas 1-9. Winternitz notes that the manuscript looks fairly old.

Text begins: hariḥ śrīgaṇapataye namaḥ avighnam astu janmādyasya yatonvayāditarataś cārttheṣv abhijñas svarāṭ tene brahma hṛdā ya ādikavaye muhyanti yat sürayaḥ tejovārimṛdāṃ yathā vinimayo yatra trisarggomṛṣā dhāmnā svena sadā nirastakuhakaṃ satyaṃ paran dhīmahi etc.

It ends: dṛṣṭyā vidhūya vijaye jayam udvighuṣya procyoddhavāya paraṃ samagāt svadhāma | cha || ity aṣṭādaśasahasrikāyāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ śrībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe navamaskandhe caturviṃśoddhyāyaḥ || Then follow two odd folios, one unnumbered, the other numbered 170.

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.23. 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; Malayalam script.