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reads phalam (not padam) asnute with the best editions, and proceeds:—ity aha bhagavan brahma I om I bhadraip dadhatu I om I Santih trih i kai- valyopani§at samapta i harih om i Digitized by LjOOQle 254 Then a note in the handwriting of Whish: ‘Here ends the Kaivalyopanishad C. M. Whish Calcutta 1825’. On the front cover we also read outside (in Malayalam character) Kaivalyopanishat with a few other faint marks in the same character, and inside: ‘These few sheets contain the Kaivalyopanizat Grantham character. C. M. Whish Calcutta’. 193. Whish No. 167. Size: 13jX1t in., 21 leaves + 2 blank -f wooden covers, 8 lines on a page. Material: Palm leaves. Date: Probably 19 tn cent. Character: Square Grantha. The Brahmasutracandrika , a concise Commentary by an unnamed author on the Vedantasutras. It begins:— Sri - Lokanandanathagurucaranaravindabhy&(ip) namah I avighnam astu i pranamya paramatmanam saccidanandavigraham i kurve- ham atisaipk§epat brahmasutrasya candrikaip. h athsto brahmajajhasa (sic)utha nityanityavastuvivekaihikamnsmika- phalabhogaviraga&amadamadisampan mumuksatmakasadha- nacatu§tayasampatyanantaram I It ends:— iti vai prajapatir ddevan asj*ta asrta^ramitamanusyat iti pitj*n trir apavltram iti grahan. The last sutra cited is I. HL 27 (20 b, L 4), but the commentary seems to touch also on the subject of 28. The name of the work and the words ‘first part only’ are written faintly, in Whish’s hand, on the outside. A slip in Burmese reads ‘Commentary on the nine parts of Metaphysics’. Whether the work is identical with any of the other candrikas mentioned in several places by Aufrecht CC. s. v. Brahmasutra, it is impossible without fuller descriptions of these to say. Digitized by LjOOQle 255 194. Sansk. No. 11. Size: 12x2* in.; 40 leaves + 2 blank + covers, 10 lines on a page. Material: Palm leaves. Date: Probably 19 th cent. Character: Square Grantha, clearly written. The Vasudevamananaprakarana in 12 varnakas , ending respectively foil. 4a, 5b, 7a, lib, 18b, 25a, 29a, 32b, 33b, 36a, 38a, 40b, generally with namaskara to Mlnak§i and Sundare^vara. At the end of the seventh we read also sri-Ksemanandandthaparamagurave namah, mentioning the author’s guru. According to Burnell, Tanjore, p. 92 b the work is at least two hundred years old, as an ancient Tamil version is known. But the present MS. exhibits not the original, but a shorter compendium, the date of which is not known, probably identical with some of those cited by Aufrecht CO., p. 428 b, s. v. Mananagrantha. Of this an edition in Telugu character was printed in 1884 at the Saradanilaya press. With this edition the MS. agrees as far as the end of van^aka 7, after which the former pre¬ sents a much longer and widely differing text. The opening stanza, also, is different, the MS. reading:— yovatlryyeha acaryyarupena yatinam mude I £rlman- narayanaip vande tam harim karunanidhim ii mananakhyam pr^karanam vasudevayatlSvaraih i racitam vistare^adya samgrahe^ta prakS^yate ii balanam upakaraya mamapi jnanasiddhaye I tatra Srlbalagopalakrsnas sannihito bhavet ii It ends:— iti jnatva tat-tvam-padadivakyajnanena paroksajnananu- bhavenaparoksasak§atkaran ca yonubhavati sa candalo va brahmano vasmakaip gurur evety acaryyavacanena vijna- tatatvopi vidi§asanyasino mahasanyasina§ ca varlyan paramahaipso bhutva madaha(read deha)vasSne paripuroa- brahmasvarupo bhavati I iti manane dvadaSavarnakaip samaptam | grlmlnaksisun- dareSvarabhyan namah i §rlgurucaranaravindabhyan namah i Digitized by CjOOQle 256 The divergence of the MS. and the edition in the last five varjtakas, combined with the peculiarity in the seventh colophon of the MS., suggests that either the edition supplies the full text and not the saipgraha or we have two dif¬ ferent, possibly independent, summaries. On the outside in European hand ‘Mananaprakaranam’. 195. Whish No. 187 a. Size: 17tX1t in.; 19 leaves, generally 8—9 lines on a page. The cover and label are shared with No. 203, q . v. Material: Palm leaves. j Date: Probably 18 th rather than 17th cent. Character: Grantha. Injuries: The ends of the first 2 and the last 3 leaves somewhat broken away. The Virata-Parvan of the Mahabharata as far as XIL 7. AdhySya I ends on f. 2 b, II on f. 3 b, III on f. 5 b, IV on f. 7a, V on £ 9 b, VI on f. 10b, VII on f. 12b, VIH on £ 15b, IX on f. 17a, X on £ 18a, XI on f. 19a. —The text agrees in general with the Grantha edition published at Sarabhojirajapura (Tanjore), but presents not a few small divergencies, such as the omission of HI 51—2, IV 8. 33., and the addition of two Slokas after IV. 21 and a halfSloka after 55 a. To the commencement we find prefixed the verses:— x-s baradharaip visnum £a£ivarnaip caturbhujaip. i pra- sannavadanan dhyayet sarvavighnopaiantaye u Vyasam Vasisthanaptaram Sakteh pautrain akalmasaip para *•*•*••* m vande Sukatatan taponidhim u VyasSlya vi§purupaya Vyasarupaya visnave i namo vai brahmanidhaye Vasisfhaya namo namah u 196. Sansk. No. 12. Size: 16J—17x1 —17 in.; 14 + 14 + 14 leaves, from 5 to 8 lines on a page. Material: Palm leaves. Date: Early 18 th cent. Character: Grantha. Digitized by LjOOQle 267 Hr- ( 1 ). The Kumdrartidrasamvada of the Tlrthamdhdtmya in the Uttardkhanda of the Skanda-Purana. It begins:— rsayah | Suta Suta mahaprSjna puranartthavi&irada \ grutani sarvatlrtthani punyani subahuni ca u te§u madhye mahatlrtthaip ^esakupe sthitaip Srutaip i tad vadasva mahabhaga £rotum icchamahe vayaip n Sutah i pura khalu maharanye nanapak§ivirajite i vya- ghrapancasyasaippur^Le candanadrumagobhite o kasturl- mrgasammardde devagandharvasevite I ausadhadrau sam- Sgatya vi£rantam madhavena ca o It ends:— sarvam maya 6rutaip proktarp rahasyam idam uttaraaip i) n&yaisnavaya datavyaip nabhaktaya kadacana I sarve§am na tu vaktavyam idaip. paramasobhanaip a iti skande purane uttarakhande tlrthamahatmye ku- mararudrasamvade trayodasoddhyayah i Primate vedanta- gurave namah i Summary of the adhydyas :— X (ends 2 b): Origin of the Se?atlrtha on the Au§adha hill, where was the Khagendra or Garuda river. XI (ends 9 a): Story of a combat between the devas and asuras, headed respectively by Visnu and Siva. At the end Siva asks permission to occupy the Patala Vana near the Se$atlrtha. XII (ends lib): Story of Bhrgu and Hemabjanayaki. The Bhutlrtha (11a, 1. 1): Ahlndrapura (lib, 1. 2). XIII (ends 14b): Story of Vrtra (Vrka 12a, 1. 2) and Indra. The Laksmltlrtha (13 b, 1. 4). ( 2 ) The AMndrapuramdhatmya in the Brahmanaradasamvada of the Brahmanda-Purdna . • It begins:— kadacit pitaraip praha brahmanarp. Narado munih i bruhi pranamya deveSa harer vaibhavam uttamaip u brahma i 17 Digitized by Google —258 gjrnu Narada vaksyami barer mahatmyam uttamam i arccavataravibhavam paramam papan5£anam u atha tai (sic) munayas sarve Sanakadyas surarsayah i kadacil lokana- thasya darsanarttham samagatah u gagane jagmur alokya kslrabdhim rsisevitam i It ends:— Srutva tu brahmano vakyaip. Narado rsisattamah i ahl- ndranagaram prapya devanathain (bis) nanSma ca 11 iti §fi- brahmandapurane brahmanaradasamvade ahlndrapura- mahatmye pancamoddhyayah i Summary of the adliyayas :— I (ends 3 a): The Yirajatlrtha is conveyed by Garuda and Sesa to Ahlndrapura, which is thus located (lb, 11. 1 - 2 ):- sadyojanapramanena kumbhaghonasya cottare I kan- cyas (sic) tu dak§ine bhage samudrasya ca paScime n ar- ddhayoj anamatrepa hy ahlndrapurasahjnake I agneya- bhage Sesadrer Markkarideyas tapasyati u II (ends 7 a): Yisnu directs the tlrtha brought by Ananta (Sesa) to be called Sesatlrtha and that brought by Garuda to be the Garuda river (Supan^atatinl 7a, 1. 5). Brahman establishes a festival, and begs Yisnu to abide on the spot with Rama (entitled Hemabjanayakl). Brahman himself occupies the Brahmatlrtha in the agneyadigbhaga, the Rsis Patall (PafaleSvara 7 a, 15) on the Ausadhaparvata in the purvottaradigantara, Hanuman a part of the Sanjlvanausadhagiri in the purvabhaga, Sankara a linga under a Patall tree at Patall, Prahlada the Bhrgutlrtha in the north at a ksetra called Krsnaranya. III (ends 10 a): At the request of Prahlada Yispu consents to abide, arccdvataram asrtya, facing the west at Krsnaranya. Praise of the aranya and of the Ausa- dhacala standing on the river’s (Suparpa’s) bank. IY (ends 12 b): Siva is implored by the gods to destroy Tripura and performs tapas. Y (ends 14b): Siva, after destroying the demons, goes to the eastern ocean, on the shore of which Yis^u esta- Digitized by LjOOQle 259 blishes him, and there arises a city devoted to the two gods, viz. Ahlndrapura. (3) The AMndrapuramdhatmya of the Jnanakanda of the Brhanndradlya-Malid-Purdm. It begins:— purabhun naimiSaranye satraip hi bahuv5,rsikai?i i sameta rsayo yatra kuSal&§ Saunakadayah u labdhavakafias tarn Sutam aprcchan harivaibhavaip i rsayah i klrttitan ta(t) tvaya brahman hareS caritram uttamaip o Srutvadyapi na tjptir no jayate matravabhava (read mativaibhava) i Sutah i kin tais tapobhir uruvikramabhaktihlnaih u pu- nyair athalpaphalasantatidair anantaih i danair jaganmaya- padambuj ayugmasaktacintavataip. hrdayatosanaviprahlnaih o aho tapahphalaip kihcit bahujanmabhir aijitaip. i yad ya- jnefeipadambhojayugacintaprasutikrt fl- -(3 verses). ^sayah i divyabhivyaktide§anaip klrttanavasare pura i ahmdranagaran nama devesacarita^rayaip n &c. It ends:— SrutvaitaS (read °tac) caritan tasya Sutad devapater dvijah i harsaSrupurnanayanah kftarttha iti menire u pra- Sa&aipsus ca tain vipraip. nemi£aranyavasinaip i yajna^alaip. punar jagmuh kriyam uddi^ya yajiiiklm o iti £rl-brhannaradl- yamahapurape jnanakande ahindrapuramahatmye catufica- tvariip^oddhyayah.