Descriptive Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts Asiatic Society Vol 08 Part 02

SR No.: 020275
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hariprasad Shastri, Chintahran Chakravarti
Publisher: Asiatic Society
Publication Year: 1940
Total Pages: 340
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Catalogue
File Size: 19 MB

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(ii) Tripurā.
One of the sublimest and most important stotras in Sanskrit is the Ananda-laharī attributed to the great Sankarācārya. Various scholars commented on the work from time to time. Of littleknown or hitherto-unknown commentaries the Society possesses MSS. of those of Kavirāja (6697), Rāmabhadra Miśra, son of Visvanātha (6696) and Raghunandana, son of Candramauli (6695). Raghunandana may not unlikely be identical with the author or any of the authors of the same name with the title Nyāyavägisa and Nyāyālańkāra, MSS. of whose commentaries on the Mahimnah-stotra and the Guru pădukā-stotra have been described (VII. 5600-1., VSP., p. 62, HPR., I. 97). Śrīkļşņa Tarkālankāra (6692), like Gangāhari (6691), gives an interesting legend about the origin of the stotra. Sankara's disregard or denunciation of the Divine Mother, it is told, led to some difficulties on his part and he succeeded in overcoming them by composing the stotra. Śrikțşņa suspects that a number of concluding verses of the stotra are not genuine. And it is reasonable to conclude that it was apparently due to such a suspicion that Govinda Tarkavāgisa (6689-90) left two verses at the end without any commentary thereon.
(iii) Bhavāni.
The Devīnāma-vilāsa (6703) which is of the nature of a metrical commentary on the Bhavani-sahasranama-stotra is an interesting work. It devotes one verse on each of the thousand names of the deity in order to explain the significance of it. The chief interest of the student of history, however, centres round the concluding verses of the chapters which generally refer to other works of the author. The names of these works, however, could not be definitely ascertained owing to the hopelessly corrupted text of the MS.
V. A FEW LITTLE-KNOWN AUTHORS
Information about the personal history of an author is very useful for a correct appreciation of the value and importance of his works. Details that could be gathered in this connection regarding little-known 1 authors, MSS. of whose unpublished works are
1 Stray but valuable pieces of information about well-known authors are also sometimes met with. Thus Pūrņānanda, a popular Tantric writer of Bengal and