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32b):—kukris saptasamudram bhujagiriSikharam saptapataiapadaip vedam vaktraip sadam- gam daSadiSi vadanaip divyaliipgaip namami i om gai^anan tva i It seems to be incomplete. ( 2 ) An Itihasa or a legend of King Vrsadarvi, with an enumeration of the great benefits, temporal and spiritual, to be reaped by him who reads this legend (ff. 1—10). It begins:—Vrsadarvikulam haviS(?) Sibikulam babhuva | tasyayam itihasah kulavidya babhuva | tad yo ha smai- mam (read smemam?) adhlte i sa ha sma raja bhavati i sa kincit prapyantarhitah i sobravlt I yo mam itihasaip. gra- hayet i parasmai dadyam iti i tato brahmanah I samyogam sayyayujet (?) ii 1 n tarn adityat puru?o bhaskaravarno niskram- ya i sa enam grahayan cakara I tarn aprcchat koslti I va vr§a- darvir iti i tasmad ya imam itihasam adhlte I adityalokosya kamacaro bhavati i tasmad ya imam itihasam upanlto majtavako grh^yat i grhltvatha brahmanan cchravayet i medhavl bhavet I varsaSatan ca jlvet ii 2 ii F. 2b:—atho’ khalv ahuh I vedasammitoyam itihasah i dharmman carati nadharmmam i satyam vadati nanrtam l Digitized by Google 57 dlrgham pasyati ma hrasvaip param pagyati maparam I rco ha yo veda sa veda devan i yajudi§i yo veda sa veda yajnam | samani yo veda sa veda sarvaip i yo manasaip veda sa veda brahma u 8 u The greater part of what now follows reads almost like a Smjii, and treats of the duties of Brahma$as, more especially of Sraddhas. On f. 9 the story is told of king Vpsadarvi who grants a certain Brahmajia one of the following boons: a cow that constantly yields milk, a sheep which is constantly shorn (? avir mmejasraip viluhyate I for viluyate ?), a millstone which is constantly grinding, a carriage which drives over all the seas, a pair of earrings with gems of the colour of the sun. The Brahmana asks his wife, and she says: ‘Take the sheep’; then he asks his son who tells him to take the carriage, then his daughter who wants him to take the earrings, finally his female slave who tells him to take the mill-stone,—while he himself fancies the cow. King Vr§adarvi gives him all the five gifts. Then it con¬ tinues:—tad idam itihasah i brahmadityapurogSya I puro- gah kagyapaya i kagyapo bharadvajaya | bharadvajo bahu- bhir anagamaya i tatah pracyavananaip dhanapater dvijah I brahmanakule jatismaro bhavati i saptajanmakrtat papan mucyate i dyas (?) tu parvabhih I dine dine gayatule bha- ranyam gayapancake II 30 u It ends (f. 10):—ete dve dhanam aryya^am mantrap caiva vratani ca l mantrag ca va vratani ca namo namah on namah Vj*§adarvi namo namah suparjiosi garutman trivjt te giro gayatran cak?u stoma atma sama te tanur va- madevyam bphadrathantare paksau yajnayajniyam puccham chandamsy amgani dhi§$iyag gapha yajuni§i nama i supar- nosi garutman divam gaccha suvah pata u harih om u 30 I itihasam samapta grlgurave namah grlsarasvatyai namah Snrainacandrasvamine namah gubham astu I ( 3 ) The Somotpatti (ff. 11, 12), a kind of Parigi?ta. The same work in the Bodleian MS. Walker 144, ff. 203—204 b Digitized by LjOOQle 58 K- . (where it forms part of an ASvalayana-MantrasamhitS). The Sama-veda Parisi§ta of the same title in the Bodleian MS. Wilson 466, ff. 11—13 (see also Weber, Indische Studien, vol. I, p. 59; other MSS. in Weber-Berlin 1, p. 78, Mitra, Notices, vol. IY, p. 160, No. 1589, & Peterson IV, p. 8, No. 120), though beginning differently, seems to be the same. It begins (f. 11):—oip somotpatti i rsaya ucuh i kautu- halasamutpanna devata rsibhis saha i sainSayam paripr- cchanti vyasam dharmmartthakovidain i kathaip va kslyate somah kslno va vrddhate (read vardhate) kathani i imam prasnam mahabhaga bruhi sarvam aSesatah i Srl-Yedavyasa uvaca \ etc . It ends (f. 12 b):—ya6 ca raja dvijatinam tasmai soma- tmane namah l somotpatti saippurnaip adityatinavagraha- devatabhyo namah £rlgurubhyo namah i ( 4 ) The Vedapadastava, a Stotra devoted to the worship of Siva (ff. 13—26). It begins (f. 13): — oip. vande maheSvaraip 6ambhuip. vighneSam sanmukhaip gurum i ganeSan nandimukhyam^ ca Sivabhaktan mahamunln I umapatyam (sic) umajanim uman comasahodaraip i umananandaram patmaip vidhiip vayam upasmahe i ... pupdarlkapuradhlSam pundarikajinaipbaram | pundarikarucim vande pundarlkaksasevitam i pundarlka- puram prapya jaimunir (sic) mmunisattamah i kin cakara mahayogl Suta no vaktum arhasi i Suta uvaca I bhagavan jaiminir dhiman pundarlkapure pura i etc. It ends (f. 25) :-traivarnikesv in[n]atamo ya[y] enaip nityaip kadacit pathatlSabhaktitah n 124 1 n padam vapy arddhapa- dam va Slokam Slokarddham eva va i yas tu va clyate nityam. Sivalokam sa gacchati i veda& 6iva6 Sivo vedo veda- ddhyayl sada£ivah i tasmat sarvaprayatnena vedaddhya- yinam arcayet i krpasamudram sumukhan trinetraip jata- dharam parvatlvamabhagam i sada&vam rudram anantaru- 1 It ought to be 114, as verse 111 is wrongly numbered 121. Digitized by LjOOQle 59 f<- pam avacidambare^aip hrdi bhavayami i £ivaci[ip]daipbaram iti bruyat sakj-jjananavarjitam i muktighapt&mapipadaip moksam eva samaSnnte i ayan danakalasuhrndanapatraip (£ 26:) bhavan natha data tvad any an na yace i bhavat- bhaktim eva sthiran dehi mahyaip krpailla Saipbho kpta- rtthosya tasmat I harih om vedapadastavaip sampuniam subham astu srlmahadevyai namah. 49. Whish No. 50. Size: lO^Xlf in., 36 + 45 leaves, from 8 to 10 lines on a page. Material: Palm leaves. Date of MS.: 18 th or 19 th cent.? Character'. Grantha. (a) The Ranga-Mahatmya , or Sriranga,-Mdhdtmya of the Brahmanda-Purdna, in 10 Adhyayas. (Ff. 36.) It begins:—Srl-Narada uvaca n devadeva virupak$a Srutam sarvam mayadhuna i trailokyantargataip vrttan tvanmukhambhojanis8rtam i tatha pupyani tlrtthani punyany ayatanani ca I gangadyas saritas sarva itihasa^ ca Saipkara I kaveryyas tu prasamgena tasyas tire tvaya pura i prastutaip ramgam ity uktam visnor ayatanam mahat [ i ] tasyahaip fcrotum icchami vistarepa maheSvara i mahatmyam aghanS- Saya punyasya ca vivarddhaye (read 0 vj*ddhaye) | etc . It ends:—pathan Srpvan likhan bibhran raipgamaha- tmyam uttamapa i muktaS ^ubhasubhe yata 1 tad vi$poh paramam padam ii iti Srl-brahmandapurane maheSvara- naradasamvade Srlramgamahatmye srlnavatlrtthaprabhava- varnanan nama daiamoddhyayah ii ^rlramgarajaya para- brahmane namah n (b) The Kusalavopdkhydna from the Asvamedhikaparvan of the Jaimini-Bharata, or the Mahabharata by Jaitnini, in 1 One MS. reads muktvasubham subham yati (Prof. Aufrecht). Digitized by LjOOQle 60 }^- 12 Adhyayas. (Ff. 46.) These are Adhyayas 25—36 in the lithographed edition of the Jaimini-Bharata, ASvame- dhika (Bombay 1863, Sake 1785), ff. 53b—70. See also Weber-Berlin 1, p. 115; Aufrecht-Oxford, p. 4b. It begins:—Janamejaya uvaca i citram uktam maha- bhaga yad ramakusayor bhr£am i tad vaktum arhasi tvaip hi grotuip kautuhalain hi me i Jaiminih i £runu rajan mahabaho ramasya caritam mahat i vistarena yatha sarvaip vadatas tan niSamaya i ramas taip. ravanaip hatva kuip- bhakarnam mahabalam I etc. Fol. 2:—iti srimahabharate a^vamedhikaparvani ku^ala- vopakhyane prathamoddhyayah ii It ends:—iti Srljaiminibharate asvamedhikaparvani ku6a- lavopakhyane dvada&oddhyayah u Srlramacandraya paragu- rave namah n Srlgurubhyo namah n subham astu II harih om ii 50. Whish No. 51. Size: 14f X if in., (4) +155 + (8) leaves, 10 lines on a page. Material: Palm leaves. Painted boards. Date: Entries by Mr. Whish dated ‘Calicut 1826’. The Dhatu or Dhatr year (see the colophons) preceding 1826 is A. D. 1816/17, but the MS. was probably written A. D. 1756/57. Scribe: Venkata Subrahmanya, the son of Sesadri. See above Nos. 15, 27 & 39.* Character: Grrantha. The Mahabharata, Parvans xiv-xviii, viz. The ASvamedhika Parvan, ff. 1 — 97, the ASramavasika „ „ 98 —136, the Mausala „ „ 136 —145 b, the Mahaprasthanika „ „ 146 —149 b, the Svargarohanika „ „ 149 b—155 b. The ASvamedhika Parvan begins:—kptodakantu rajanaip dhptara§tram yudhisthirah 1 puraskptya mahabahur uttatara- kulendriyah 1 uttlryya ca mahabaho ba§pavyakulalocanah I papata tire gamgaya vyadhaviddha iva dvipah 1 etc. It ends (f. 97):—evam etat tadavrttan tasya yajne mahatmanah 1 paSyatah capi nas tatra nakulontarhitas Digitized by LjOOQle 61 tada d iti srlman-mahabharate 6 atasahasrikayam sarphitayam asvamedhike parvany astasaptatitamoddhyayah o 6 rlkr§ 9 aya namah o om 6 ubham astu visargabindvaksara£ppgapadahl- nam maya yal likhitaip pramadat I tat ksantum arhanti dayalavalas santas sada hastakrtaparSdham u harih om u vatse dhatav avagvartmany atha var§arttubhasvati i sravape masy acchapak§e pahcamyaip tva^rabhe tithau i vasare vaniputrasya likhitam pustakan tv idam i a^vamedhikaparvan tu mud a Se§adrisununa n harih om 6 ubham astu om u sn- gurucaranaraYindabhyan namah 11 The Asramavasika Parvan begins (f. 98):—Janameja- yahirajyani prapya naravyaghrah pitrpaitamaham mahati katham asan maharaje dhrtarastre mahatmani i sa hi raja hatamatyo hataputro nirasrayah i katham aslt gatai&varyyo gandharl ca ya£asvinl i etc. It ends (f. 134 b):—yudhi?thiras tu nrpatir nnatiprlta- manas tada i dharayam asa tad rajyaip nihatajnatibandha- vah ii (f. 135:) iti Srlmahabharate Satasahasrikayaip sarphi¬ tayam asramavasike parvapi §atcatvariipSoddhyayah u $rl- krsnaya namah II om u dhatunamani hi hayanepy avagrar- tmasannihitalokacak^usi i masi karkatakanamni pak$ake Syamale jalajaputravasare i atra^vinibhe likhitan ca parvaip SesatmajenaSramavasikan diva i hastadrutenaiva viramitan jana alokya (alaksya in the repetition) santas sahituip samarhatha ii hiranyavapu§e namah n om a^ramavasikaip purnam n £ubham astu. The whole colophon from iti Srl- mahabharate to samarhatha is repeated on f. 136. The Mausala Parvan begins (f. 136):—om saftriip^v atha samprapte var§e kauravanandana i dadarfa viparltani nimittani yudhi?