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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PREFACE. xiii Rsabhagita is a panegyric upon Rsabha, a Rsi, who is called here the 8 th incarnation of Visnu. Moksopaya appears to be an old and dilapidated copy of the Yogavasistha Ramayana. In the colophons it is called :- Iti Valmikiye Moksopaye . . and sometimes Iti Mokso paye. Vedastuti-bhavarthadipikadipanam, by Radharamana, Dasa, a follower of Caitanya. In the tenth skandha of the Bhagavatapurana there is a hymn entitled Srutistuti or Veda-stuti. Sridharas vami commented on the whole of the Bhagavata, and his commentary is known as the Bhavartha Dipika. The present work is a commentary on the Bhavartha dipika on the Srutistuti hymn. Radhastamivratakatha is a part of the BhavisyottaraPurana. It is an interlocution between Krsna and Narada. Radhastamipujavidhih and Radhikajanmarahasyam, Nos. 249 and 252, are both from the Brahmavaivarttapurana. Ramaraksastotra, the extent of which is 146 slokas only, is commonly styled Mantraramayana. Portions of it are written in Vedic style. The MS. has been noticed in No. 215. It is commented upon by Nilakantha, the son of Govindasuri of the Caturdhara family of Benares. The commentary is called Mantrarahasyaprakasika noticed in No. 216. Similarly there is a work called Mantra-kasi-khanda, a commentary on which by the same Nilakantha is noticed in No. 213. Both the texts were restored by the commentator himself. There are two new commentaries on the Devimahatmya unknown to Aufrecht; one is by Kevala and the other by Madhava Sarma. The last was composed in 1531 Saka. Nagojibhatta wrote a commentary on the same work, and along with it he wrote a short treatise on the method of using the Devimahatmya, under the title of Saptasatiprayoga, which is noticed in No. 327.