[South Indian Sanskrit MS 132, Whish MS 132] Brahmottarakhaṇḍa

Brahmottarakhaṇḍa

Language – Sanskrit

Date – [1800?]
Palm leaf; 7 lines on a folio.

Manuscript consists of the Brahmottarakhaṇḍa (from the Skanda-purāṇa?), Adhyāyas 23-44. Winternitz notes that the beginning is similar to Bodleian MSS. Walker 160 and 132d, but that the work is not identical to either of them.

Text begins: hariḥ śrīgaṇapataye namaḥ avighnam astu śuklāṃbaradharaṃ viṣṇuṃ śaśivarṇṇaṃ caturbhujaṃ prasannavadanaṃ dhyāyet sarvavighnopaśāntaye | ākhyātaṃ bhavatā pūrvaṃ viṣṇor māhātmyam uttamaṃ sarvapāpaharaṃ puṇyaṃ samāsena śrutañ ca naḥ | idānīṃ śrotum icchāmo māhātmyaṃ tripuradviṣaḥ tatbhaktānāñ ca māhātmyaṃ niśśeṣāghaharaṃ paraṃ tanmantrāṇāñ tadvratānān tatppūjāyāś ca sattama tatkathāyāś ca tatbhakteḥ prabhāvam anuvarṇṇaya | śrī-Sūtaḥ | etāvad devamarttyānāṃ śreyas sa sanātanaṃ yad īśvarakathāyāṃ vo jātā bhaktir ahetukī, etc.

It ends: yaḥ paṭhec chṛṇuyāc caiva purāṇaṃ śaivam uttamaṃ sa vidhūya sarvakarmmāṇi śivaloke mahīyate | iti brahmottarakhaṇḍe purāṇaśravaṇamahimānuvarṇṇanan nāma catuścatvāriṃśoddhyāyaḥ || śrīpārvatīparameśvarābhyāṃ namaḥ || . . . gurūṇāṃ caraṇāṃbhojaparāgaparamāṇavaḥ manomukuram asmākaṃ punīyur anuvāsaraṃ || śubham astu | śrīgurubhyo namaḥ śrīśūlapāṇaye namo namaḥ |

For further quotations from the ends of chapters, 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.188-189. 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.