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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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It is not known if this is the work referred to by Raghunandana in his Smrti-tattva.
A reference may be made here to a work called the Brhadrudra-yāmala (5866-7) which has little connection with the Rudrayāmala. The Society seems to possess all the known MSS. of the work ---three in number 1-two of which both incomplete, are described here and the remaining one, which is complete belongs to the old collection of the Society. The work is in the form of an interlocution between Krsna and Nārada. It deals with the worship of various deities like Ganesa, Kāli and Pañcānana, the popular Guardian Deity of children.
The only work so far known expounding the doctrines and practices of the little-known but catholic Pārānanda school of Tantric worship, which puts a taboo on ritualistic details as also on animal sacrifice, apparently an essential feature of Sakti worship, appears to be the Pārānanda-sūtra published in the Gaekwad's Oriental Series. The present collection possesses a fragmentary manuscript of another small work on the subject, called the Pārānanda-mata or Paramananda-mata-samgraha (5982). It gives a brief but clear and systematic account of the views of the school. This is a metrical work, with a few prose-lines here and there, containing about a hundred verses. Some of the verses, which are apparently borrowed by both from an earlier source, are found in the printed text also. The language in both the works is occasionally almost identical. The fragment has been published in JRASBL. (1939, pp. 467-7), with a short summary of the contents in English.
The Akāśabhairava-kal pa belonging to the Mahāśaiva-tantra appears to be a big work of which a portion, complete in itself, dealing with various magic rites is preserved in a MS. of the Society (5895). Another portion, a considerably bigger one, belongs to the Tanjore Library of which a modern copy is in the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute. This portion deals with the details of the worship of Sāmrājya-lakşmi (Presiding Deity of Sovereignty) and with Rāja-dharma (royal duties). A detailed description, containing a list of contents, of the last-mentioned manuscript is given in the Karnataka Historical Review (1939, pp. 7–18)
1 For an account of the MSS. and their contents of. D. R. Bhandarkar Volume, pp. 77–81.
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