[South Indian Sanskrit MS 104, Whish MS 103] Bhāṣyārthasaṃgraha

Bhāṣyārthasaṃgraha

Language – Sanskrit

Date – [1800?]
Palm leaf; 10 or 11 lines on a Malayalam folio, 8 or 9 lines on a Grantha folio.

Winternitz notes that there is an entry by C. M. Whish dated 1831, but he thinks the manuscript may be about 50 years older.

Manuscript consists of the following texts: 1. the Sāṅkhyasaptati or Sāṅkhyakārikā, by Īśvarakṛṣṇa (ff.1-3); 2. the Bhāṣyārthasaṃgraha, by Brahmānanda Yati, the pupil of Viśveśvarānanda (ff.4-10); 3. a commentary on the Sāṅkhyasaptati, by Vācaspatimiśra (ff.1-45); 4. the Sāṅkhyavivaraṇatattvakaumudī, a super commentary on Vācaspatimiśra’s work (No.3), by Bodhabhāratī, a pupil of Bādhāraṇya (ff.45-80).

Text of the Sāṅkhyasaptati begins: hariḥ śrīgaṇapataye namaḥ avighnam astu | duḥkhatrayābhighātāj jijñāsā tadapaghātake hetau dṛṣṭe sāpārtthā cen naikāntātyantatobhāvāt | dṛṣṭavad āśravikas sa hy aviśuddhikṣayātiśayayuktaḥ, etc

It ends (f.3b): saptatyāṃ khalu yertthās tertthāḥ kṛtsnasya ṣaṣtitantrasya ākhyāyikāvirahitāḥ paravādavivarjjitāś cāpi || tathā ca rājavārttikaṃ || …. iti ṣaṣtiḥ padārtthānām aṣṭābhis saha siddhibhiḥ || namaḥ Kapilāya | … śubham astu ||

Text of the Bhāṣyārthasaṃgraha (f.4-10) begins: hariḥ śrīgaṇapataye namaḥ avighnam astu | ghaṭarūpeṇa yo bhāti paṭarūpeṇa ca prabhuḥ sarvā[bha]vāsakaṃ vande tam ahan devakīsutaṃ śrīmatbhāṣyāmṛtāṃbhodher arttharatnaṃ samuddhare hnuṃ[?] laṃkurv añcane[?] naryāḥ kaṇṭhaṃ kaustubhavaddhariḥ śrutismṛtītihāsapurāṇāni hi brahmaṇi pramāṇaṃ teṣāñ ca trividhā pravṛttiḥ keṣāñcit pariṇāmadṛṣṭyanusāriṇī anyeṣāṃ vivarttadṛṣṭyanusāriṇī pareṣām apavādadṛṣṭyanusāriṇī, etc.

It ends (f.10): atrāntaḥkaraṇopādher bādhitatvān na gamanādiśaṃkā iyam evaitat sūtrasaṃdarbhapratipādyā bhāṣyakārādyabhimatā ca iti śrī-Viśveśvarānandaguruprasādāsāditasarvajñatvena Brahmānandayadinā [sic] kṛtaśrīmatbhāṣyārtthasaṃgraha[ḥ] samāptaḥ || … śrīgurubhyo namaḥ śrīsūryādisarvagrahebhyo namaḥ śrīrāmāya namaḥ, etc.

Text of the commentary on the Sāṅkhyasaptati begins: ajām etāṃ lohitaśuklakṛṣṇāṃ bahvīḥ prajās sṛjamānān namāmaḥ ajā etañ juṣamāṇāṃ bhajante jahaty enāṃ bhuktabhogā | asamastān | Kapilāya mahāmunaye śiṣyāya tasya tasya cāsmaraye Pañcaśikhāya tatheśvarakṛṣṇāyaite namasyāmaḥ |

F.45: ity āryyāmatir yyasya soyam āryyāmatiḥ etac ca śāstraṃ sā śrī-Vācaspatimiśraviracitā sāṃkhyasaptativyākhyā saṃpūrṇā || hariḥ om ||

Text of the Sāṅkhyavivaraṇatattvakaumudī begins: yatprasādād ajan nityam ātmānam aśarīriṇaṃ | vijajñau tān gurūn bhaktyā namāmi karuṇākarān | śrīmatsāṃkhyasaptatiṃ vyācikhyāsur bhagavān Vācaspatiḥ prārīpsitasya granthasyāpratibandhena parisamāptiprabalapratyartthino vyudā[read vyūhā]rtthaṃ śiṣṭācāraparipālanāya ca pradhānasya puṃ[so] bhogāpavargārttha[ṃ] pravṛttilakṣaṇaśāstratātparyyakathanapūrvakaṃ pradhānaṃ puruṣāṃś ca namasyaty … etc.

It ends: kva śrī-Vācaspate[ḥ] sūktiḥ kva ca mandasya me matiḥ | kāyitam etac ca yat tat [?] cchoddhyaṃ subuddhibhiḥ || iti śrīBādhāraṇyaśrīpādaśiṣyaparamahaṃsaparivrājakācāryyā-śrī-Bodhabhāratīśrīpādakṛtā sāṃkhyavivaraṇatatvakaumudī samāptā || … śubham astu |

For more extensive quotations from the texts, see Winternitz catalogue entry.

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.142-144. 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; first two texts (10 folios) in Malayalam script, the rest in Grantha.