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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25 No. 562. sabdacandrika | Substance, country yellow paper. Folia, 46. Extent, 1470 slokas. Character, Bengali. Date Lines, 7 on a page. ? Place of deposit, Calcutta, Sir Raja Radhakanta Deva Bahadur. Appearance, old. Verse. Incorrrct. Sabdachandrika. "A vocabulary of vegetable and mineral substances, with a tolerably copious list of animals, and a chapter on compounds, both in medicine and diet. It is accompanied by an interpretation in Bengali, and is a useful work. The author is Chakrapani Datta, and the compilation is comparatively modern." Wilson's Essays, III, 237. Beginning. devam pranamya herambam vaidya sricakrapanina | End. bhaisajya sabdabodhaya kriyate sabdacandrika || amaradiprasiddhani yani namani tani ca | nanatantraprayogena kathyate viksitani ca || alabhadadhikakhyaya mayoktam neha yat kvacit | sabdarnavadikosebhyah tajjnatavyam bhisagvaraih || Colophon. iti triphaladivargah | sricakrapanidattaviracita sabdacandrika samapta | visayah | vaidyasastraktaparibhasika sabdabhidhanam || No. 563. vaisnavamrtam | Substance, country yellow paper. Folia, 133. Lines, 8 on a page. Extent, 3059 slokas. Character, Bengali. Date ? Place of deposit, Calcutta, Sir Raja Radhakanta Deva Bahadur, Appearance, new. Verse. Correct. Vaisnavamrita. A manual for Vaishnavas. By Bholanatha Sarma. The MS. is incomplete. The fragment found is devoted to the following subjects; the necessity of appointing a spiritual guide (guru); the characteristics of a proper guru; persons who should not be accepted as gurus; derivation of the word guru; characteristics of a neophyte ; the right to initiation in the mystic mantra; origin of the word mantra; origin of the word diksha (initiation); the necessity of initiation; meaning of the word agama; astrological considerations in connexion with initiation; avoidance of hostile mantras; months, days of the week E