Parmatmaprakasha and Yogsara

SR No.: 001876
Original Sutra Author: Yogindudev
Author: A N Upadhye
Publisher: Paramshrut Prabhavak Mandal
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 550
Language: Sanskrit, Hindi, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Literature
File Size: 13 MB

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the pagination that these two Mss. are expected to stand together. It contains dohas with Kannada explanation. It is written in Old-Kannada characters. As to orthographical peculiarities, the old r is used in the Kannada commentary: sometimes new r is written, but it is struck off and again substituted by the old form. The Ms. opens with fri Santinathiya namak, and ends thus: Yogendra-gathe samapta || Sri Santinathaya namah || etc. etc.
M. Described - This is a palm-leaf Ms., about 17.5 by 2 inches in size, It covers 8 leaves, Nos. 16 to 23. On the first page of leaf No. 16 a Kannada commentary on Moksaprabhta by Balacandra is concluded, and then the dohas of Paramatmaprakasa follow with no introductory remark, not even the opening salutation. This Ms. contains merely the dohas. The handwriting is different here from the two previous Mss. It has 9 or 10 lines on each page, with some 75 letters in each line. The second page of leaf No. 23 is almost blank with one fourth of a line. From the uncertain shape of letters it is clear that the copyist is not sufficiently trained in writing on palm-leaves. Very often modern u is used in these Kannada characters, The surface of pages is besmeared with black powder making the inscribed letters quite visible. The text abruptly ends without any significant indication.
Additional Information about T, K and M-It is necessary to give some more information about the Mss. T, K and M. When I visited Mūdabidri, in December 1935. on my way to Mysore to attend the Eighth All-India Oriental Conference, PŁ Loknatha Shastri took me to the Sri Viravāņi-vilasa-bhavana, which, though a new Institution, contains many valuable Mss. As I wanted some Kannada Mss. of Para matma-prakata, he gave me a bundle of palm-leaves under wooden boards. Though the length is the same, some leaves are of different breadth. It is this bundle that contains the Mss. T. K and M described above. To indicate the heterogeneous character of this bundle, I think I should give here the names of works contained in it. Folios 1-8 dohás e.prakasa (T described above); ff. 8-36: dohas of the same with Kannada explanation (K described above); ff. 1-15 (different pagination and different handwriting) : Nag akumaracarita of Mallişeņa, and some stray Sk. verses on the remaining space of p. 15; ff. 16-7: Upasakasanskara of Padmanandi; ff. 18-21 : Nitisara samuccaya also called Samayabhūşana, of Indranandi; ff. 22-5: a small upasakacara with religious and didactic contents, the first verse of which runs thus: srimaj Jinindracandras ya sandra-vak -candrikasritah, hpsista (?) dustakarmasta-gharms-samtapanašramam || duracara-cayakranta-duḥkh -samdohasantaye, bravimyõpåsakacaram caru-mukti sukhapradam here some pages are missing; ff. 33-36 (the hand-writing is different here) the same Upasakacara again : ff. 1-2 (no pagination) Prašnottara-ratnamalikd, of