Samipya 2000 Vol 17 Ank 03 04

SR No.: 535817
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Bhartiben Shelat, R T Savalia
Publisher: Bholabhai Jeshingbhai Adhyayan Sanshodhan Vidyabhavan
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 84
Language: Gujarati
Classification: Magazine, India_Samipya, & India
File Size: 8 MB

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Kannada, Telugu, Grantha and Malayalam scripts. Most of these MSS are copied in the 15th to the 18th cent. A. D. Exceptionally the MS (D) in Sarasavati Bhavan, Varanasi, dates back in the 12th cent. A. D. The text of Skandhas I, II and III is constituted on the basis of select 27, 30 and 31 MSS respectively.
The immediate interlocators of the Bhagavata are Sage Saunaka and Sata Paurānika but the original author of the Purāņa is believed to be Vyäsa, who felt unsatisfied even after compiling the Vedic hymns into four Vedas and composing the Mahabharata, composed the Bhāgavata at the instance of Nārada and taught it to his worthy son Suka, who narrated it to King Pariksit (I, 3-7). Hence the principal interlocators of the Bhagavata are King Pariksit and Suka. The author, therefore, devotes the major portion (adhy. 8-18) of Skandha I to the narration of the various incidents of the life of King Parikșit. Sata Paurāņika is said to have learnt the Bhāgavata from Suka, while the latter narrated it to Parikșit.
Parikşit presents a number of questions to Suka, who expounded an epitome of the Bhāgavata with its ten characteristics in Skandha II. Skandha III is regarded to be dealing with the first characteristic, viz sarga (creation).
Skandha I consists of 18 adhayāyas. Some MSS split 1-10 into two adhayāyas, depicting Krnsas travel to Dvārakā in 1.10 and his entry into the city in 1.11. Skandha II, consisting of only 10 adhayāyas, is the briefest skandha of the Bhāgavata, Skandha Ill consists of 33 adhayāyas. It contains the episode of the digvijaya of Hiranyäksa and his terrific encounter with the Varäha incarnation of Visņu. The concluding adhāyayas 21-33 give a detailed ākhyāna of Kapila, the expounder of the Sāmkhya system of philosophy.
Vol. I was published in 1996 and its price is Rs. 500.
Vol. II is contributed by Dr. Bharati Shelat. It deals with the next three skandhas IV, V and VI. She has constituted the text on the basis of select MSS in Sāradā, Nevāri, Maithili, Bengāli, Devanāgari, Nandināgari, Telugu, Kannada, Grantha and Malayalam scripts. The total number of the select MSS is 31 in Skandha IV, 29 in Skandha V and 26 in Skandha VI. From the collation of the 36 MSS, the Editor has discerned five versions, viz. Northern, Western, North-Eastern, North-Western and Southern. She has also given scriptwise numbers of omissions and insertions.
Skandha IV narrates the account of the families of Manu's three daughters. It contains the ākhānas of Daksa and Sati, Dhruva, Anga, Vena, Pșthu, Puranjana and Pracetās. Skandha V contains the ākhyānas of Priyavrata, Agridhra, Nābhi, Rsabhadeva and Bharata. It also narrates the global geography, the astrological circle and the Hell. Skandha VI commences with the story of Ajāmila, exposes the
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