eGangotri XV Diwali Issue: Manuscripts from Srinagar Ashram; Some More Kashmirian Manuscipts

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In this Edition of eGangotri I have a few more exciting manuscripts. First a pleasant discovery in Srinagar.

Karan Nagar Ashram, Srinagar:

Recently someone left a note on my Blog and informed us that the Karan Nagar Ashram in Srinagar has some manuscripts and also many books which in the KP Exodus of the 90s were deposited by the fleeing Community.

I was very excited and I contacted the Caretaker Shri Kaul and to my immense pleasure and surprise, permission to digitize was given immediately. And work has started there thanks to my New Manager Hashim.

But very sadly though, I was told that 60% of the books were destroyed in the floods esp Manuscripts.

But whatever of the Old Books and Manuscripts survive our team is now working there and should take us two months to digitize them.

The New Account for the Karan Nagar Ashram is:

https://www.scribd.com/srinagarashram

We have done 5 Manuscripts there , 3 in Sharada and 2 in Devanagari  – and the only ones we have found so far:

Spanda Nirnaya in Devanagari( Wet Copy )

Spanda Nirnaya_Wet_damaged Devanagari Manuscript No 2 – Found in Ram Krishna Mission Srinagar

Sandhyoapasa Vidhi in Sharada

Sandhyopasana Vidhi Tika in Sharada Manuscript No.5 – Found in Ramakrishna Mission Srinagar

Bhagavata Gita and 9 Other Texts in Sharada

Bhagavata Gita_Yoga Vashishtha and 9 Other Texts Sharada Manuscript No 4 – Found in Ram Krishna Mission Srinagar_Part1

The Manuscripts contained are as follows:

Shri Bhagavat-Amrit-Abdhi-labdha Shri Bhagavat Bhakti Ratnavali Trayodasha virachanam
Ganesh Stotra in Nandikeshwar Samvada: Starting Page: 1
Shuka Stuti in Bhagavata Mahapurana : Starting Page: 16
Dhruva Stuti in Bhagavata Mahapurana : Starting Page: 22
Ram Gita : Starting Page: 29
Mukunda Mala: Starting Page: 58
Vai Stuti : Staring Page 82
Mahimna Stuti : Starting Page 112
Shri? : Starting Page 140
One Pgae Om Brahmeva-idam-sarvam : Staring Page 149
Illustration of Goddess with 5 Heads, 8 Arms, Seated on a Swan : Page 152
Gita Chanting Rituals : Starting Page 154
Bhagavata Gita with Major Colophonal Notes : Starting Page 161
Bha? : Starting Page 374
One Page of Text : Starting Page 429
Yoga Vasishtha : Starting Page 431

An Illustration inside a Manuscript which scholars have surmised as the Five Faced Gayatri:

Illustration of Goddess Saraswati

Bhakti Ratnavali in Sharada of Swami Vishnupuri:

Bhagavata Bhakti Ratnavali of Swami Vishnupuri Sharada Manuscript No 3 – Found in Ram Krishna Mission Srinagar_Part1

Contents of the above Devi Mahatmya in Devanagari with Multiple Manuscripts:
Devi Kavacha: Starting Page 1
Argala Stuti: Starting Page : 33
Kilaka : Starting Page: 39
Devi Mahatmya Starting Page 48
Laghu Stavi : Starting Page 299
Indrakshi Stotra : Starting Page 319
Bhavani Nama Sahasram : Starting Page 330
Snana Vidhi Sandhya : Pg 408
Jwala Mukhi Praises in 2 Pages : Starting Page 478
Rare Unknown Lost and Forgotten  Kashmirian Books from the Ashram:
 Shri-Shri-Maha-Rajni-Pradurbhavah (श्री श्री महाराज्ञी प्रादुर्भावः)

Popular Kashmiri Shaivite Stotras from a 1939 Edition including Panchastavi, Jwalamukhi, Sharika Stora:

https://www.scribd.com/doc/288161549/Panchastavi-Ragyi-Sharika-Jwalamukhi-Stotra-1939-Kashmir-Oriental-Press
A Manasa Kosha of 1909
https://www.scribd.com/doc/288161680/Manasa-Kosha-1909-Indian-Press-Allahabad-Part1
An 1894 Leelavati of Bhaskar:
https://www.scribd.com/doc/288161680/Manasa-Kosha-1909-Indian-Press-Allahabad-Part1
1891 Nirbhay Vilas
https://www.scribd.com/doc/288161552/Nirbhaya-Vilas-Gita-Govinda-1891-Nirbhay-Ram
Many other Rare Interesting Titles can be checked in the Main Account.
Before providing Details of New Manuscripts digitized, I will like to proudly mention that Our Last Issue of eGangotri was very well received by His Excellency Maharaja Karan Singh – especially because it highlighted the Unprecedented Work done by H.E.’s Great Ancestor Maharaja Ranbir Singh and scholars of Kashmir Shaivism are forever indebted to his unprecendented work for the Preservation and Dissemination of Manuscripts.

The following is H.E.’s very generous acknowledgement:

 Dear eGangotri ( Hiding my Name ):

I have read with much interest your circular letter of 25th October and must commend you for the excellent work that you are doing on these manuscripts. It will be good to see you when you are next in Delhi.

 Greetings,

 Karan Singh

Kashmirian Manuscripts from Raghnath Temple:

A Curious Tantric Sharada Manuscript with a Strange Register of Sharada :

https://www.scribd.com/doc/289107846/Guru-Mandaladi-Pujan-Vidhi-1071-Gha-Alm-5-Shlf-4-Sharada-Tantra
Indologist Christopher Tompkins informs me that he has 7 Digital Copies of Nepalese Manuscripts of this Work but this is the first itme he is coming across a Sharada(Kashmirian) Version.
Ishwar Pratyabhijna Vivritti of Abhinva
https://www.scribd.com/doc/286964017/Ishwar-Pratyabhijna-Vivritti-Vimarshini-Abhinava-Gupta-5922-Alm-26-Shlf-4-1475-K-Devanagari-Kashmir-Shaivism-Part1

A Second Tantraloka – this one is not cataloged in Stein but in IGNCA – but as we discovered in a 1929 Harabhatta Shastri Catalog of Raja Hari Singh’s Manuscript Collection this prefatory note that post Stein’s 1896 Catalog, Raja Ram Singh’s Collection was completely transferred to Raghunath Temple and this and many other manuscripts may have originated from Raja Ram Singh’s Collection that cannot be seen in Stein.

Sharada Manuscripts on Jyotisha: PrashnaMala and Janma Patra Likhan Prakar:

https://www.scribd.com/doc/288197787/Prashna-Mala-and-Janma-Patra-Likhan-Prakar-5042-5043-Alm-22-shlf-5-Sharada-Jyotish
Shakti Tattva Vimarshini:
https://www.scribd.com/doc/288197788/Shakti-Tattva-Vimarshini-Vyakhya-Neel-Kantha-2054-Alm-9-shlf-3-Devanagari-Vedant-Shastra
A Sanskrit Prose Novel Tarka Kutuhula by Vijayeshwar Suri:
The following are Stein’s Comments on it:
The name of this work which is a novel and should accordingly have been entered
in Class xii., jg very doubtful. It is written on the back of the first leaf by a different
hand; the letters (fo ~o are found on the margin of the leaves. The MS. is written in
a modern Kashmirian hand; it shows no signs of having been copied from a. S’arada
original.
A very interesting Mantra Bhashya wrongly ascribed to Abhinavagupta and definitely Kashmirian with the following  observation of Stein:
The Mantrabhasya a manual of the formulas and rites occuring in the Vrata shikha samskara of the
Upanayana Tradition deserves notice as one of the comparatively rare contributions 
we possess from Kashmiri authors towards liturgical literature. The author doesnot state his own name
but mentions his father Saomananda as a resident of Vijayeshwar, a town well know to the annals of  Kashmir, the modern Vijabror
https://www.scribd.com/doc/287743172/Saraswati-Sotram-Mantra-Bhashyam-18-Jati-Nirnaya-Ashwalayan-Abhinavagupta-Anonymous-2674-2675-2676-Alm-12-Shlf-1-Devanagari-Dharmshastra
2 Swachanda Udyots:
https://www.scribd.com/doc/288166256/Svachchanda-Tantra-With-Udyota-Commentary-1846-Alm-8-Shlf-3-Devanagari-Kashmir-Shaivism-Part1
https://www.scribd.com/doc/288158247/Svachchanda-Tantra-With-Udyota-Commentary-1846-Alm-8-Shlf-3-Devanagari-Kashmir-Shaivism-Part1
Kavya Prakash of Mammata:
https://www.scribd.com/doc/288166261/Kavya-Prakasha-501-Alm-3-Shlf-3-Devanagari-Kavya-Shastra-Part1
Two Vigyan Bhairava:
https://www.scribd.com/doc/287573928/Vigyan-Bhairava-With-Colophonal-Notes-2094-Alm-9-shlf-3-Devanagari-Kashmir-Shaivism
https://www.scribd.com/doc/286839677/Vigyan-Bhairava-With-Udyota-Shivopadhyaya-4007-Alm-9-shlf-1-Devanagari-Kashmir-Shaivism
Mrigendra Samhita:
https://www.scribd.com/doc/287743174/Mrigendra-Samhita-Vivritti-Bhatta-Narayan-1999-Alm-9-Shlf-2-Devanagari-Tantra
A DashBhashodaya Kosh in Devanagari and Partially in Perseo-Arabic Script with Synonyms in Ten Languages:
Sanskrit
Hindi
English
Arabic
Persian
Turkish
Kashmiri
Pushto
Balti ( language of PoK Baltistan )
Laddakhi( referred as Lami )
Abhinava’s Paramartha Sara Vivritti
https://www.scribd.com/doc/287573937/Paramartha-Sara-Vivritti-Purna-Advayamayi-Abhinavagupta-2330-Alm-10-shlf-3-Devanagari-Kashmir-Shaivism
And a Very Interesting and Rare Case of Arabic to Sanskrit Translation from an Arabic Astrological Work also commissioned by H.E. Maharaja Ranbir Singh:
The Hayat Sangyo Grantha [The Text Called Hayat]
https://www.scribd.com/doc/287573923/Hayat-Sangyo-GranthaH-2971-Alm-13-Shlf-4-Devanagari-Jyotish
Author Name or Translator’s Name Unknown.
Some Mathematical Diagrams in the manuscript make interesting Viewing.
Two Works of Bhattotpala a 10th Centruy Kashmirian Astrologer :
https://www.scribd.com/doc/286819807/Brihat-Jatak-Vivritti-Bhattotpal-2882-Alm-13-shlf-2-Devanagari-Jyotish-Part1-pdf
https://www.scribd.com/doc/286814835/Yoga-Yatra-Vivriti-Shri-Bhattotpal-2879-Alm-13-shlf-2-Devanagari-Jyotish-pdf
A Spanda Vivritti:
https://www.scribd.com/doc/287897806/Spanda-Vivritti-with-Rama-Kantha-Tika-6005-Alm-26-shlf-6-1608-Devanagari-Kashmir-Shaivism-Part1-pdf
Abhinava’s Tantra Vata Dhanika:
https://www.scribd.com/doc/285490125/Tantra-Vata-Dhanika-Abhinav-Gupta-5576-Alm-25-Shlf-4-1110-K-Devanagari-TantraYogini Hridaya Deepika:

https://www.scribd.com/doc/286245775/Yogini-Hridaya-Deepika-Amritanand-Yogi-4900-Alm-22-shlf-2-Devanagari-Tantra
and some other minor works.
The eGangotri Team

2 thoughts on “eGangotri XV Diwali Issue: Manuscripts from Srinagar Ashram; Some More Kashmirian Manuscipts”

  1. Aditya's avatar Aditya

    Its a fantastic work done by you… Hearty congrats behalf of all indologist. But as a student of sanskrit we like to request you to put all the texts in Google drive.. so we will be able to access at any time.. scribed is not a comfortable site for us to download. we have to upload each time for downloading. as a student its not possible for us. So we will request you to consider our request to put all your images in Google drive, so anybody can access the file at any time without any difficulty. Thanking You…

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