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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45 No. 593, vanaryyastakam | Substance, country yellow paper. Folium, 1. Extent, 10 s 'lokas. Character, Bengali. Date Lines, 6 on a page. ? Place of deposit, Calcutta, Sir Raja Radhakanta Deva Bahadur. Appearance, modern. Verse. Generally correct. Vinaryashtaka. Eight stanzas on sweetness of temper, quietude, health, ignorance, the twice-born class, physicians, and decayed trees, said to have been composed by a she monkey. Beginning. madhuryyam santamarogyam danam makhadvijatibhih | vaidyam sujirnavrksanca vanavatakam tu vai || End. visayah | vrksam hinaphalam tyajanti vihagah suskam rasah sarasah puspam paryyam sitam tyajanti madhupah dagdham vanantam mrgah | nirdravyam purusam tyajanti ganika bhrastasriyam mantrinah sarvvam karyyavajjano hi bhajate kasyapi ko bandhavah || yatreञpadesayuktah kavitah santi | No. 594. caitanyakalpah | Lines, 7 on a page. ? Place of deposit, Substance, country yellow paper. Folia, 9. Extent, 157 s / lokas. Character, Bengali. Date Calcutta, Sir Raja Radhakanta Deva Bahadur. Appearance, new. Verse. Generally correct. Chaitanyakalpa. An apocryphal Tantra, said to be a part of the Brahmayamala Tantra, but evidently compiled by a Vaishnava, with a view to prove the divinity of Chaitanya by Tantric evidence, and thereby overcome the opposition of the Sakta sect. Contents: Birth of Chaitanya; his merits; mystic mantra for worshiping him; hymn to the river Yamuna; details of worshiping Chaitanya. Beginning. kailasasikhare ramye bhaktisadhanatatpara ! End. papraccha parvvati bhaktya sankaram paramesvaram || bhaktapriyo gauracandro bhaktavasyah sacisutah | tasmat gauram ye bhajanti tesam vasya janardanah ||