Notices of Sanskrit Manuscripts
by Rajendralala Mitra | 1871 | 921,688 words
These pages represent a detailed description of Sanskrit manuscripts housed in various libraries and collections around the world. Each notice typically includes the physical characteristics, provenance, script, and sometimes even summaries of the content of the Sanskrit manuscripts. The collection helps preserve and make accessible the vast herit...
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XX PREFACE. duties of a worshipper of Syama. In the work the chapters are named avartta (whirlpool) and vauci (wave). Satkarmollasa, by Purnananda, is complete in twelve ullasas, of which the present MS. (808) contains only nine. Purnananda is a well-known author whose Tattvacintamani was written in 1579. In the present work he treats of the six cruel rites, namely, (1) raising enmity between two loving persons; (2) making one of them go abroad; (3) subjugation of others to one's own will; (4) stupefaction; (5) killing; and (6) fascination. Sat-karma-dipika (309), by Srikrsna Vidyavagisa Bhattacarya, treats of the same topics. Sundari-Ratnavali (843) is a Tantrika story of Dravidasisu attaining success by worship of Devi in the form of Sundari. Bharadvaja-Samhita (197) has been described in L., vol. VIII, p. 226, and I.O., p. 852 B. Rajendralala says it is probably a part of a Tantra. Eggeling describes it in the chapter of Tantra, mysticism. I doubt if it is a Tantrika work, because the essential feature of a Tantra, that is, the derivation of mantras from the letter of the Sanskrit Alphabet, is not prominent in this work. It is, I believe, a work of the Vaisnavas of Southern India. Bhava-cadamani (200) is a Tantrika work, often quoted and of great authority. It treats of the three different Bhavas in which Tantrika worship can be conducted; the first of them being Divya, the second Vira, and the third Pasu. In the first the five M's have no place; in the second they appear prominently; and in the third they are omitted, but the acaras of Smrti are not respected. Bhava-dipika (201), by Acyuta Dhira, the son of Janar dana and the grandson of Puskara, is a work on the same subject as above. Bhava-Sara (202), an anonymous work, is also on the same subject. Mantrartha-dipika (209), by Govinda Nyayavagisa