Comparative and Critical Study of Mantrashastra

SR No.: 006540
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Mohanlal Bhagwandas Jhaveri, K V Abhayankar
Publisher: Sarabhai Manilal Nawab
Publication Year: 1944
Total Pages: 635
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English & Culture
File Size: 18 MB

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INTRODUCTION
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knew even the ten Purvas was Sri Vajraswami who died in s. y. 114. He as well as Sri Padaliptasūri are the next persons credited with further abridging or rearranging these Pràbhṛta works.
The importance of these works is that there is a Prabhṛta named Vijjāpāhuda dealing with Vidyas mentioned in the biography of Sri Padaliptasuri contained in Kathavali and also in Prabhavakacaritra works of the 13th and 14th centuries respectively of the Vikrama era. There, both the said Sri Padaliptasuri and Vidyacakravarti (Sovereign of Vidyās-magic) Aryakhapuṭācārya who flourished about the beginning of the Vikrama era are described as versed in Vijjāpāhuda. After Vidyanupravāda this Vijjāpāhuda was considered to be a comprehensive work on Vidyas and Mantras. It is however lost now. Yoniprabhṛta referred to in the footnote on p. 155 is a work of the Prabhṛta class. An incomplete manuscript of the said work is available in a mutilated condition with many lacunae and mixed up with Jagatsundari Yogamālā, a work on medicine by Muni Jasakirti and/or Harişeņa. Pahnasramaņamuni is mentioned as the author of the said work Yoniprabhṛta in the said manuscript.* The writer has not personally seen the manuscript but has seen the notes taken therefrom by an acquaintance and a transcript of Chs. 35 to 43 from another incomplete manuscript also in the Bhāndārakara Research Institute Library. It contains Mantras at various places. At it is reputed to be an old work, some of the Mantras therein contained are set forth in Appendix A hereto.
× See Vividha-tirtha-Kalpa, Satrunjaya-Kalpa V. 122 and Revantagiri-Kalpa V. 1 and its colophon.
* The manuscript is in the library of the Bhandarkar Research Institute and bears old No. 266/A 1882-83 and New No. 31. According to the colophon, the date of this manuscript is s.y. 1582 (Śaka 1447) Śrāvana Krsna 3rd. The work inter alia contains Mantras of Jvālāmālini and Kuşmanḍini alias Ambikā. Māņibhadra and Gaṇadharavalaya Mantra. The last two are given in the appendix A hereto. Several articles on Yoniprābḥrta are published in Anekānta (Vol. II) a Hindi magazine published at Sarsava, Dist.Saharanpur; they may be persued by the readers interested in the subject.