[South Indian Sanskrit MS 131, Whish MS 130] Tulākāverīmāhātmya

Tulākāverīmāhātmya

Language – Sanskrit

Date – [1800?]
Palm leaf; 8 lines on a folio.

Manuscript consists of the text of the Tulākāverīmāhātmya from the Agni-purāṇa, in 30 Adhyāyas. Other copies of this text in RAS Whish MS 52 / South Indian Sanskrit MS 51, and RAS South Indian Sanskrit MS 186 / Sanskrit MS 6.

Text begins: dharmmavarmmā ca rājarṣir, etc.

F.5b: iti śrīmadāgneyapurāṇe tulākāverīmāhātmya prathamoddhyāyaḥ ||

F.40: ity āgneyapurāṇe tulā- saptamoddhyāyaḥ || śrīraṃgeśāya namaḥ ||

F.79b: ity āgne- tulā- pañcadaśoddhyāyaḥ ||

It ends: iti prasannānananīrajā mudā … abhypūjayan | ity āgneyapurāṇe tulākāverīmāhātmye tṛṃśoddhyāyaḥ || yādṛśaṃ, etc. … Āvadugdhāraṇagurave namaḥ | śrīkāveryai namaḥ | śrī-Govindan putran Anantakṛṣṇan svahastalikhitaṃ śrīraṃgeśāya namaḥ || … hariḥ |

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.188. 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.