[South Indian Sanskrit MS 185, Sanskrit MS 5] Pañcanadamāhātmya

Pañcanadamāhātmya

Language – Sanskrit

Date – [1800?]
Palm leaf.; 6 or 7 lines on a page. Manuscript consists of the Pañcanadamāhātmya from the Tīrthapraśaṃsā of the Brahmakaivarta-purāṇa, incomplete and very incorrect. Winternitz notes that ff.. 16, 82, 214 are missing; ff.106, 108, 124 occur twice; ff.104, 107, 109, 198, 211, 212 and 213 are misplaced; he also notes that the MS. is written by two different hands, and that it looks as if original lacunae had been supplied by a more recent hand. The end is missing. Text begins: śuklāṃbaradharaṃ viṣṇuṃ śaśivarṇaṃ caturbhujaṃ prasannavadanaṃ ddhyāyet sarvavighnopaśāntaye | yā kundendutuṣārahāradhavaḻa [read -ḻā] yā śubhravastrāvṛta [read -tā] yā vīṇa[read ṇā]varadaṇḍamaṇḍitakarā yā śvetapadmāsanā | yā brahma[read -hmā]cyutaśaṃkaraprabhṛtibhi[r] devī sadā pūjita sa [read -tā sā] māṃ patu [read pātu] sarasvatī bhagavatī nigyeṣajāḍyāpaḥ [read niśśeṣajāḍyāpahā] | doskayukta [read dorbhir yuktā] caturbhi sphaṭikamaṇimayīm akṣamālān dadhānā hastenaikena patmaṃ sitam api ca śukaṃ pustakañ cāpareṇa bhāsakundenduśaṃkhasphaṭikamaṇinibhā bhāsamānā samānāṃ [read -aṃ] sā me vāgdevateyan nivasatu vadane sarvadā suprasanna [read -nnā |] vande maheśvaran devaṃ vighneśaṃ ṣaṇmukhaṃ gurum | For a longer quotation from the beginning of the manuscript, see Winternitz catalogue entry. F.6: iti śrīmatbrahmakaivarttakāvye mahāpurāṇe tīrtthapraśaṃsāyāṃ pañcanadamāhātmye prathamoddhyāyaḥ || F.54: iti ……. navamoddhyāyaḥ || F.99b: iti ……. dvāviṃśoddhyāyaḥ || F.164: hit ……. pañcatriṃśoddhyāyaḥ || F.187: iti ……. tricatvāriṃśoddhyāyaḥ || F.212b: iti śrīmatbrahmakaivarttākhye mahāpurāṇe tīrtthapraśaṃsāyāṃ pañcanadamāhātmye aṣṭācatvāriṃśoddhyāyaḥ. South Indian Sanskrit / Sanskrit 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.243-245. Go to http://tinyurl.com/j3tkdwj for a digital copy of this catalogue. Provenance unknown. Text in Sanskrit; Grantha script.