Essay name: Notices of Sanskrit Manuscripts
Author: Rajendralala Mitra
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 heritage of Indian literary and philosophical traditions contained within these manuscripts.
Volume 14 (1904)
182 (of 310)
External source: Shodhganga (Repository of Indian theses)
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PREFACE.
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Rṣabhagītā is a panegyric upon Rṣabha, a Rsi, who is
called here the 8th incarnation of Visnu.
Mokṣopaya appears to be an old and dilapidated copy
of the Yogavasistha Rāmāyaṇa. In the colophons it is
called :-
-
Iti Valmikiye Mokṣopāye . . and sometimes Iti Mokṣo
.
Vedastuti-bhāvārthadipikādīpanam, by Rādhāramaṇa,
Dāsa, a follower of Caitanya. In the tenth skandha of the
Bhāgavatapurāṇa there is a hymn entitled Srutistuti or
Veda-stuti. Sridharas vāmī commented on the whole of the
Bhāgavata, and his commentary is known as the Bhāvārtha
Dipikā. The present work is a commentary on the Bhāvārtha
dipikā on the Śrutistuti hymn.
Rādhāṣṭamivratakathā is a part of the Bhaviṣyottara-
Purāṇa. It is an interlocution between Kṛṣṇa and Narada.
Rādhāṣṭamīpūjāvidhi� and Radhikājanmarahasyam, Nos.
249 and 252, are both from the Brahmavaivarttapurāṇa.
Rāmarakṣāstotra, the extent of which is 146 slokas
only, is commonly styled Mantrarāmāyaṇa. 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
Govindaśūri of the Caturdhara family of Benares. The
commentary is called Mantrarahasyaprakāśika noticed in
No. 216.
Similarly there is a work called Mantra-kāsi-khaṇḍa, 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 Devīmāhātmya
unknown to Aüfrecht; one is by Kevala and the other by
Mādhava Śarmā. The last was composed in 1531 Saka.
Nāgojibhaṭṭa wrote a commentary on the same work,
and along with it he wrote a short treatise on the method
of using the Devīmāhātmya, under the title of Saptasati-
prayoga, which is noticed in No. 327.
