Indian Antiquary Vol 16

Author(s): John Faithfull Fleet, Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[MARCH, 1887.
thirteen days, one should not celebrate mar- | 1185, according to the southern reckoning, he riages, &c.; if any such coremony is per- has found that the full-moon tithi of the bright formed, then the result is death,-80 say Garga fortnight of Åshâdha fell on Saturday, the and other saints. Investiture with the sacred 23rd June, A.D. 1263; and the new-moon thread; marriage; laying the foundations of tithi of the dark fortnight of the same month, a house, and other meritorious acts; (and) on Friday, the 6th July. And this gives going on a journey,-(these are things which), 1 thirteen solar days for the fifteen tithis of the if a man desires to live, he should not do in a dark fortnight of this month, AshAdha, in lunar fortnight in which there are two expunc- Southern India, or of Srâvaņa in Northern tions (of a tithi).'"
India; "except," he says, "perhaps in some
parts far off in the east of India." While revising the proofs of the preceding Of course, two of the tithis of this fortnight part of this note, I have received from Mr. Sh. were expunged. The authorities differ as to B. Dikshit another interesting instance of a which these two tithis were. But, one of lunar fortnight of only thirteen solar days. them was early in the fortnight; and the
I had asked him to compute for me the de- details of this have not been worked ont, tails of the Verawal inscription of Arjunadeva; because they do not bear upon the actual date and, in order to settle all the surroundings of under computation. The other was either the this date once for all, to make the calculations twelfth, thirteenth, or fourteenth tithi. And for Saka-Samvat 1185 and 1187,-as well as for according to the determination of this,-to be Saka-Samvat 1186, which is the true equivalent of settled hereafter,-the date under computaValabhi-Sanvat 945,--and to make them by the tion, vis. Ashadha krishna 13, was either southern, as well as by the northern, reckoning. Wednesday, the 4th July, or Thursday, the
In making the calculations for Saka-Samvat 15th July; unless it was itself expunged.
THE VASUDEVA AND GOPICHANDANA UPANISHADS.
BY COLONEL G. A. JACOB, BOMBAY STAFF CORPS. These two Upanishads appear now in print In preparing the text, I have used the fol for the first time. When Professor Weber lowing MSS. :wrote his History of Indian Literature, he
For the Vasudeva. had, apparently, not heard of the former; and
1. One of the set of 59 Upanishads classithe latter was only known to him by name. We have therefore not had the benefit of an
fied as No. 133 of 1880-81, in the Deccan
College Library. analysis of them from his able pen. Their
2. MS. No. 355 of 1883-84, in the same opening and closing sentences have appeared in
Library. It contains the text and Narayana's Dr. Rajendralal Mitra's Notices of Sansksit
Dipika. . Manuscripts; but no attempt has been made to publish them in extenso.
3. MS. No. 1645 from the Government Like most of the minor Upanishads of the
Collection at Calcutta. It also contains the fourth Veda, they have no real claim to the
text and commentary. title; but, as the subject matter is not altoge
For the Gopichandana. ther devoid of interest, no apology is needed 1. MS. No. 127 of 1880-81, in the Deccan for making them public. Indeed, it is desir- College Library. able that everything claiming the dignity of an 2. A copy made for me at Benares, under Upanishad should be brought to the light, 80 Dr. Thibaut's orders. that, if undeserving, it may be shorn of the 3. A copy of MS. No. 222 in the Library of adventitious merit derived from that claim, the Maharaja of Bikanir. which will cling to it as long as it is enveloped 4. MS. No. 337 of 1883-84, in the Deccan in the darkness of ignorance.
I College. Text and Dipiku.
ante, Vol. XI. p. 241 f.