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) paramapavanam advitlyam pu- nyamunlndrair adhivasitah ca I Digitized by LjOOQLe 266 pasyanti ye brahmapurlSam adyam dhanya bhavanti manujah khalu bhagyavantah n iti Srl-brahmandapurane uparibhEge naganathamaha- tmye parvatya(s) tap as c ar anan'nama saptapancasoddhyEyahi Sriyai namah I iti brahmandapurane naganathamahatmyaiii samaptah i sampurnam i harih i om 1 Subbam astu i Sriyai namah i (4) The Campakaranyamahatmya of the Ekadasarudrasam- hita of the Siva-Purana. Ff. 154 a—167 b. In spite of the difference of title this work is a con¬ tinuation of the preceding as regards the numbering of the adhyayas, which end as follows:— LYIII 156 a, LIX (Suryatirthavaibhava) 159 a, LX 160 b, LXI 162 a, LXII (Candravarmacarita) 164b, LX1II 166b, LXIY 167b. The work begins:— Saunakovaca (sic) I Suta pauranika[h] srestha sarvalokaprapujita (read °ta) I caippakaranyamahatmyam bhavata kathitaip. pura u idanlip. suryyakundasya mahatmyaiii saipgrahat Srutam I tasya tlrtthasya mahatmyam samgrahat u yistarat Srotum adyaiva vancha me varttate nunain i * $ * $ * * x $ krpa yady asti ced vada fl It ends:— vrjinavilayahetum yah Srunotlha nityam l sa bhavati paripurnah sarvakamaih mydasya padam akhilasuredyam yogivaryyabhigamyam u iti Saivapurane ekadaSarudrasaiphitayam campakara- nyamahatmye catuhsastitamoddhyayah i Sriyai namah I caippakaranyamahatmyam sampurnam I harih om I Srlmatgirikucambasameta naganathamaipgalai?i I harih l om i karakrtam &c. i SrJgurubhyo namah i gobrahma^e- bhyah Subhaip. bhavatu i harih om l On the front cover of this MS. we read (inside) ‘Tiru- nakeSvara’ (Tamil for Srlnagesvara) and (outside), ‘Teplska* Digitized by LjOOQle 267 < T^^unake^Ya^a , ‘PuraIlam , (167) and the number 10 in Telugu and European figures, and a sign probably indicating the same number appears on all the leaves. 198. Sansk. No. 14 Size: 15* xlj in.; 172 leaves (169—170 blank) and wooden covers, 6 lines on a page. Material: Palm leaves. Date: 18 cent. Character: Telugn, fairly well written, but often difficult to read and showing many corrections. The leaves are numbered as far as 190, though even here with troublesome erasures and corrections. As far as fol. 56 the writing is in three columus: at that point commences a rather larger hand, traversing the full width of the leaves. The Madhyamabhaga of the Hemakutakhanda of the Bharadvajasamhita of the Adimaha-Purana. For another MS. of this work see Ind. Off No. 3698, pp. 1387 b sqq., with which the text seems to agree closely. Thus in the opening verses Si 4 reads srnvamtu, and after sudhanisyam Si 5 we have a mark showing that there has been a correction. The colophons also are generally in nearly literal agreement, and their disagreements (e. g. in XXXI) sometimes point in the same direction. There are, however, considerable divergences. The Harigcandropakhyana is inserted at a different point in the two MSS., while each offers certain chapters not found in the other, according to the following scheme:— As. Soc. MS. Ind. Off. MS. adhyy. 1—18 19—35 40—47 36—39 ? adhyy. 1—18 36—52 20—27 ? 28—35. Digitized by LjOOQle ■ i 268 *&• The present MS., however, breaks off in the middle of adhy. 47. The existence of this MS. confirms Dr. Eggeling’s sugges¬ tion of a Telugu source for the Ind. Off Nagarl copy, and his conjecture of hrdayastheyan (for °steydn) in adhy. 9. 22 is also confirmed. The following statement gives the numbers of the pages on which the adhyayas end and the names of those not given in Dr. Eggeling’s list:— I 3b, n 6b, III 9a, IY 12a, Y 17a, VI 19a, VII 20 b, Yin 22 b, IX 25 a, X 26 b, XI 28b, XQ 29 b, XIII 33 a, XIV 34 a, XV 36 b, XVI 38 a, XVII 40 a, XVin 42 a, XIX 44 a, XX 47 a, XXI 53 b, XXII 57 b, XXIII 61b, XXIV 66 a, XXV 70 a, XXVI 75 a, XXVII 80 a, XXVIII 86 b, XXIX 91b, XXX 96 a, XXXI 102 a, XXXII 107 a, XXXITI 112b, XXXIV 115a, XXXV 118a, XXXVI (KapildsramddivydgJiraputa(sic)tlrthaparyantatirthdni ka- thanam) 123 b, XXXVII (Devaghatamamrara (sic) kathana) 127 a, XXXVIII ( Surasasamgamajdlapadatir- thakathana) 130 a, XXXIX ( Manmukhatirthotpatikathana (sic) 134 a, XL 139 b, XLI 143 a, XLII 149 b, XLIII 154 b, XLIV 159 b, XLV 162 a, XLVI 167 b, XLVII (imperfect) 168 b. The names of the chapters in the Hariscandropakhyana are • XIX Vdsist(sic)avisvdmitrasamvdda. XX Mrgayd. XXI Vasisthadharmopadesa. XXII Mayavarahaprabhava. XXIH Hariscandrasvassadarsanarosavirbhdva. XXIV Candalakanyakadarsana. XXV Kasikena rajapraharana. XXVI Bdjdnnirgamana. XXVII Mayavahnisrsti. XXVin Hariscamdrena Camdravativikraya. XXIX Ylrabdhudarsana. XXX Hariscamdrena smasdneksana. XXXI Camdravatyd visadastalohitdsvasamdarsana. Digitized by LjOOQle 269 XXXII Hariscamdrena Camdravativadha. XXXIII Harismmdravaraprasddana. The concluding lines of the MS. read thus:—tata^ paraip tanubhrta sidhido braiphmanirbharah i mahato malyava- cchrmgas te pataipty udhaSlkarah. mu (= 20—21 of the Ind. Off. MS. adhy. XXVII). For Sanmukha (see Ind. Off adhy. 9) this MS. seems always to read Manmuhha , which is perhaps due to the likeness of the ak$aras ma and sa in the Telugu character. On the last two leaves we read ‘Sri Virupaksa Sri 7 (bis) ‘Sri Ramaya namah 7 ‘Sri (3) Sakadadaya namah 7 and a few other scrawls. At the commencement of adhy. XXXIX, after a blank half leaf, there is a fresh beginning with the words ‘Sri VirupSk§aya namah 7 . 199. Sansk. No. 15. Size: 17|-x2 in.; 10 leaves, 9 Jines to a page. Material : Palm leaves. Date: 18to cent. Character: Grantha, not inked over. The Kadambapunmdhatmya of the Brahmanaradasam - vada of the Purvakhanda of the Brahmanda-Purana. It begins:— Suklambaradharaip. visnuip. SaSivarnam caturbhujam | prasannavadanaip. dhyayet sarvavighnopaSantaye n naimiSe punyanilaye r§ayas satram asate i Asito-- ete canye ca bahavo naimiSaranyavasinah u jamitando§aSantyarttham satkathaSravanotsukah I Sutani pauranikam Srestham idam vacanam abravlt u ’ r?ayah i Sutavidvan (read°dvan) mahaprajna[s] sarvaSastraviSaradai tvatta Srutany anekani ksetrani vividhani ca u nadyaS ca vividhas sarva tlrtthani ca vanani ca I idanDp Srotum icchamo nipak?etrasya vaibhavaip fl Digitized by LjOOQle • 270 ^ It ends:— idaip puranam jagataip yasaskaraip surai$ ca sendrair api nityacintitam I ayu$yam arogyakaram ya^asyaip. sada sujalpam paramatmayogibhih iti brahmandapurane brahmanaradasamvade 6rl-kadainba- punmahatmye sasthoddhyayah i harih om i Subham astu I Snmate SriniyasamahadeSikaya namah i Summary of the adhyayas: I (ends 2 a): Kaverl, being adjudged inferior in her rivalry with Ganga, performs tapas in Sutala. Brahman appearing informs her that superiority to Ganga can be obtained from Visnu alone. Narada directs her to the Nlpaksetra. II (ends 2 b, °purusottamamdhdtmye dvitiyoddhyayah): De¬ scription of the Ksetra:— Srlramgasya vimanasya kimcid iSanya uttare I Samivanamahaksetrapurve vai kroSamatrake u Sn-kadambavanain nSma prasiddham lavanatraye l purvvam DaSaratho raja yagam arabhya satk^tah u kaveryya uttare tire colabhumau tu suvrate i Srl-kadambapui'lksetraip. munlnam sthSnam uttamam n &c. The Kadambavana is astdvimsatinamaka. There dwells Purusottama and in front of him an arrow's reach is the tlrtha called after Prahlada and also the Nlpa¬ ksetra, where dwells Markandeya. m (ends 4 a, °puravaibhavakathamm tejasadhikyaprdpti - katha(na)m ndma): Long stotra by Kaverl, to whom Visnu promises a boon. K. asks for superiority to Ganga in tejas, that V. should dwell near her, and that all creatures living in the neighbourhood may be sure of moksa. V. creates a temple on the spot 4 a, L 7: — tadaprabhrti tatksetraipm adimapuram ity abhut. IV (ends 6 a, °satkirttivarddhana$drupyaprdpti ): Markandeya at the advice of Brahman visits Kadamba- pura by the Kadambasaras (= Nlpapu§karini), At Digitized by LjOOQle ~jH 271 *<r his advice a Cola king Satklrttivardhana by worshipping Vi§nu obtains a son. He afterwards builds a temple and gains moksa. V (ends 7 b): The Nlpapuskarinltlrtha and the Brahmatlrtha. YI (ends 10 a): The Prahladatlrtha and the Nlpatlrtha. The Adimapura of 4a, 1. 7 is again mentioned 8 b, 1. 2:— krte yuge nlpaksetraip tretayam adimapuraip* On the outside of the last leaf in European hand *Ka- dambapuri Mahatmya of the Brahmaijda Pura^a 7 . 200 . Sansk. No. 16. Size: 16*xlr in., 22 leaves + 2 blank covers between boards, 6 lines to a page. Material: Palm leaves. Date: 18 th or 19th cent. Character: Grantha, clear and well written. The same work as the preceding, from which it is copied, as is proved by its displaying the same numerous small gaps, and in one or two slight points (e. g. 6 a, L4 —■ 3a,L 2, 9 a, 1. 6 — 4 a, 1. 8) making correction^. In this MS. the chapters end foil. 3 a, 6 b, 9 b, 13 b, 16 b, 22 a. On the outside of the last leaf in European hand ‘ D Kadambapuri Mahatmya', and of the first a statement of the contents in Tamil, and the numbers 22. 201 . Sansk. No. 17. Size: 14fxli in., 35 leaves -f 1 blank + covers, 6 lines (nearly always) on a page. Material: Palm leaves. Date: 18th 0 r 19th cent. Character: Grantha, fairly correct. The Kapisthalamahatmya of the Brahmanaradasamvada of the Ksetragolakavistara of the Uttarahhaga of the Brah- manda-Purana. Digitized by LjOOQle 272 K~ It begins:— Suklaijibaradharam visnum £a£ivarnan caturbhujaip. I prasannavadanan dhyayet sarvavighnopaSantaye o Srl-Naradah i pitamaha namas testu praslda karunanidhe i sarvajna sarvalokeSa sarvak?etrajna mantravit 11 yimanatarasarajna tlrtthasarajna punyavit i girlnan ca nadlnan ca vananara vaibhavam pura u Srutan tvatto mahabhaga astottaraSatasthalaiji i tesu k§etresu sarvesu £rutam ekaip.