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Essay name: Purana Bulletin

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Affiliation: University of Kerala / Faculty of Oriental Studies

The "Purana Bulletin" is an academic journal published in India. The journal focuses on the study of Puranas, which are a genre of ancient Indian literature encompassing mythological stories, traditions, and philosophical teachings. They represent Hindu scriptures in Sanskrit and cover a wide range of subjects.

Purana, Volume 1, Part 2 (1960)

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59 (of 150)


External source: Shodhganga (Repository of Indian theses)


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DEVANAGARI SOURCE OF THE UJJAIN ŚARADĀ MANUSCRIPT OF THE MATSYA PURĀṆA BY ANAND SWARUP GUPTA [ मत्स्यपुराणस्यैक� शारद� लिपिको� उज्जयिनीस्थाया� [matsyapurāṇasyaika� śāradā lipikośa ujjayinīsthāyā� ]सिंधिय�-ओरियन्टल इंस्टीट्यू� [siṃdhiyā-oriyanṭala iṃsṭīṭyūṭa] ' संस्थाया� संरक्षितोऽस्ति � � कोशस्तत्� काश्मीरदेशात्प्राप्त�, मत्स्य- पुराणस्य काश्मीरपाठपरम्परां चानुसरति � शुद्धश्चाय� कोशः, तथाप� लेखकप्रमाद- जन्याः काश्चिदशुद्धयस्तत्रोपलभ्यन्त�, तास्वनेक� अशुद्धयः केषांचित� शारदाक्षराणा� नागराक्षराणा� � परस्पर� समानाकृतित्वाद्ध तोर्भ्रान्ते� लिपिकरेण जनिताः � देवनागराक्षराणामेव शारद� लिप्या� प्रतिलिपिकरण� एत� अशुद्धयः संभवितुमर्हन्त� नान्यथेत्यत्� प्रदर्श्� काश्मीरपाठानुसारी कश्चित्प्राचीनो देवनागरीको� एवास्य शारदाकोशस्याधा� आसीदित्यस्मिन्निबन्धे प्राची� लिपिविज्ञानमाश्रित्य प्रतिपादितम् ] [saṃsthāyā� saṃrakṣito'sti | sa kośastatra kāśmīradeśātprāpta�, matsya- purāṇasya kāśmīrapāṭhaparamparā� cānusarati | śuddhaścāya� kośa�, tathāpi lekhakapramāda- janyā� kāścidaśuddhayastatropalabhyante, tāsvanekā aśuddhaya� keṣāṃcit śāradākṣarāṇāṃ nāgarākṣarāṇāṃ ca paraspara� samānākṛtitvāddha torbhrāntena lipikareṇa janitā� | devanāgarākṣarāṇāmeva śāradā lipyā� pratilipikaraṇe etā aśuddhaya� saṃbhavitumarhanti nānyathetyatra pradarśya kāśmīrapāṭhānusārī kaścitprācīno devanāgarīkośa evāsya śāradākośasyādhāra āsīdityasminnibandhe prācīna lipivijñānamāśritya pratipāditam ] ] The Sāradā Ms. of the Matsya Purāṇa depositedin the Scindia Oriental Institute, Ujjain, and bearing No. 4481 con- tains important textual peculiarities, some of which have already been discussed. It also contains certain peculiar scribal errors and textual corruptions which can be explained palaeographically only if we suppose that some Devanāgarī original was the direct or indirect source of this Saradā Ms. And as this Ms. comes from Kashmir and represents a Kash- mirian version of the Matsya Purāṇa, its supposed Devanāgarī original also must have belonged to the same version, and also must have been written in Kashmir or the North-western parts of India. From this it may also be inferred that the Devanā- gari script was in use in Kashmir prior to or side by side with the use of the Sāradā script. The Devanagari script has been used in India since about the 8th century A. D. For a long time it has generally been writing Sanskrit works and recognised as an all-India script for Vide my article 'A study of the Textual Peculiarities of a Sarada Ms. of the Matsya Purana' published in ‘Purāna' Vol. I, pp. 58-71. 7

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