Temples in Srinagar

We were put up in Zyeshtha Devi Guest House where the Zyeshtha Temple ( ज्येष्ठा ) is located up on a Small Hill. 

We also went to Kheer Bhavani which was nice. There was a small riverine passing by it which had a very deep and refreshing water. We also got to see River Indus on or way back.

I was pleasantly surprised to see a Muslim Couple worshipping at the Temple and chanting in Sanskrit.

But the Best Part were visiting Shri Swami Ram Ashram in Fateh Kadal – the erstwhile Hindi Neighbourhood ( ethnically cleansed ) of Srinagar and also Habba Kadal Ganesh Temple

My Kashmir Trip, Some Rare Temples and Shakti Peethas and Scholars and Many Many Books

The Ishwar Ashram Trust had organized a Seminar on Kashmir Shaivism in September End and I thought it was a good excuse to meet some Old acquaintance and Scholars and especially hunt for more books and not least go to some Rare Temples and Shakti Peethas. I was lucky on all counts.

(1) Temples

(2) Books and Libraries

All Publications of Ishwar Ashram Trust and Several Books from their Library

Many thanks and gratitude to Shri Samvit Prakash Dar Sahib, Shri R.K. Sadhu, and Shri Dev Munshiji of the Ishwar Ashram Trust to allow Society for Preservation of Indological Books to scan there Entire Publications and several rare and very interesting Volumes from there Library ( ex. Urdu Translations of Skt. Originals, Braj Bhasha Translations, Two Sharada Manuscripts etc).

Total Number of Books scanned is 115.

The books are available at:

http://www.scribd.com/ishwarashram

Interesting Titles and Collections

(1) Complete Works of Swami Lakshman Joo in Hindi ( 12 Books )

(http://www.scribd.com/my_document_collections/3824928)

That this is the complete List of Swamiji’s Hindi Books is a surmise only as the only other Organization to publish Swami Lakshman Joo is Universal Shaiva Fellowship and I dont believe they have ever published anything in Hindi.

(2) 28 Ishwar Ashram Trust Publications besides

(3) 9 Books of Swami Ram Shaiva Trika Ashram.

http://www.scribd.com/my_document_collections/3830291

I was not aware that Swami Ramjoo – the Guru of Swami Lakshman Joo still has a Active following and that they are publishing as well. I got to speak to one disciple Shri Ganjooji whose number I got through one of the Publications itself and came to know that he is living in the Swami Ram Trika Ashram in Shrinagar. I have had the fortune of being there once. And after speaking to Shri Ganjooji and coming to know that they have a Collection of Books I have  a sort of future plan to go there and scan those books and find some rare works.

(3)

Bhaskari – K C Pandey and Subramania Iyer

Scanned Bhaskari edited by K C Pandey and Subramani Iyer – both from Lucknow University.

First Published in 1938 CE.

In Three Volumes.
The Three Volumes contain Abhinavagupta’s Commentary on his Own ‘Ishvar Pratyabhijna Vimarshini’ and the English Translation of the Bhaskari and also An Outline History of Shaiva Philosophy by K C Pandey

http://www.scribd.com/collections/3818559/Bhaskari-K-C-Pandey

( Readers are also referred to Mutabodha’s Digitization of the Original Text )

Links to Scanned books:

The Prince of Wales Saraswati Bhavana Texts No. 70
Edited by Mangal Dev Shastri
Allahabad
1938

Bhaskari
Vol. I  and II
A Commentary on the Isvarapratyabhijnavimarshini of Abhinavagupta
Edited by K.A. Subramania Iyer, Skt. Dept., Univ. of Lucknow
and
Dr. K.C.Pandey, sKt. Dept., Univ. of Lucknow

http://www.scribd.com/doc/105459775/Bhaskari-I-K-C-Pandey

http://www.scribd.com/doc/105478512/Bhaskari-II-K-C-Pandey

The Prince of Wales

Saraswati Bhavana Texts
No. 84
Edited by Tribhuvan Prasad Upadhyaya
Bhaskari VOl III
An English Translation or the Isvara Pratyabhijna Vimarshini
In the Light of the Bhaskari
with an outline of History of Shaiva Philosophy
by Kanti Chandra Pandey
MA, PhD, Dlitt, MOL, Shastri Lucknow University

http://www.scribd.com/doc/105456907/Bhaskari-III-K-C-Pandey

 

Devi Naam Vilas – Sahib Kaul Manuscript

We received a beautiful Manuscript in Sharada of Devi Naam Vilas of Sahib Singh Kaul, Courtesy: Shri Dev Munshi, Ishwar Ashram Trust.

It has been digitized by Muktabodha already.

We have got this One More Copy of it scanned and is now available at:
http://archive.org/details/DeviNaamVilasSahibKaul

The PDF of the manuscript is at:

http://archive.org/download/DeviNaamVilasSahibKaul/Devi%20Naam%20Vilas%20-%20Sahib%20Kaul.pdf

I also made a  surprising and beautiful discovery inside the manuscript of a small piece of a Mantra scribbled in Sharada on a Bhurja Patra.

The Bhurja Patra is available below:

http://ia701201.us.archive.org/3/items/DeviNaamVilasSahibKaul/BhurjaPatraMantra.pdf

Mark Dyczkowski Guru Maharaj was very kind to transliterate it in Velthius for me.

The Velthius Transliteration is given below:

asya “sriibagalaamukhii ma0 naaradarya0 b.rhatii cha0 bagumukhii da0 hrii.m vii.m ii.m “sa0 nna.m kii.m bagulaamu”syatitha.na? hlaa.m a0 hya0 hlii.m ta0 “si0 hla.m ma”si0 hlai.m anaa phra0 hlau.m kapi netra hla.h karata asyaa gayatrii .o hlii.m “shma asyaa vi0 stambhanaa baa.naa ya0 tanno bagulaa?pa0 .n.da sauvar.naa manasa.msthitaa tinaya.naa piitaa.m”sukolaasinii hemaabhaata ciraa.m “sarcaa phra? mupha.ta ma”scampakambhaa yutaa haste.su darapaa”savajrii ra”sanaa0 sa.mvibhratii bhuu.sataa vyaaptaa”ngii.m bagulaamukhii trijagataa samutinii.m ci.mtayata

.o hlii.m bagulaamukhi sarvadu.s.taanaa vaaca.m mukha.m stambhaya jvihvaa kiilaya 2 budhi.m vinaa”saya hlii.m .o svaha0

More Treasures of Amrit Vagbhav Acharya Unearthed

My this trip to Delhi, I requested Agarwal Sahib if I could personally look through his library which was a small dusty room full of jam packed almiras.

Thanks to Agarwal Sahib’s kindness to let me search I am pleased to announce I have found many rare books which probably not more than 10 people in the World possess – who are also most likely not aware of the seminal Content of them and will never bother to ever do anything to circulate them.

Two such books are:

Atma Vilas ( a Hindi Commentary and Original was uploaded last time )

with Vimarshini Commentary in Sanskrit of B N Pandit.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/105182999/Shri-Atma-Vilas-With-Vimarshini-Amrit-Vagbhava-Acharya-and-B-N-Pandey

Vimshatika Shastra –

http://www.scribd.com/doc/105184614/Shri-Shri-Vimshatika-Shastram

with three Sanskrit Commentaries:

Shri Vimarshini – B N Pandit
Shri Prakashini – Raghunath Chandra Vasishth
Shri Prasadini – Shri Ramanand Tiwari

and

Prakkathan – Dr. Sampurnanand
Prastavana – Dr. Fateh Singh
Bhumika – Shri Hari Shastri

In total I found

1. 14 Books by Amrit Vagbhava Acharya ( with Commentaries by Other disciples), this apart from what we have had before.

which include:

i.Atma Vilas with B N Pandit’s Commentary – as indicated above

ii. Shri Vimshatika Shastra – with multiple Skt. Comm – as indicated above.

iii. Shri Guruvara Stava

iv. Shri Mandakranta Stotra – missing a smaller Version of the same name.

v. Shri ParamSHiva Stotra tatha Vastu Sthiti Prakash

vi. Shri Para Shiva Prarthana aur ShriShiva Mahim Stotra

vii. Shri Parshuram Stotra

viii. Shri Rasthraloka with Rashtra Sanjivan Commentaries by Shri Shiva Sagar Tripathi and Padma Shastri ( Red Cover )

ix. A Second Version of Shri Rasthraloka with Rashtra Sanjivan Commentaries by Shri Shiva Sagar Tripathi and Padma Shastri ( Blue Cover ) . almost one-half the size of the former.

x.  Shri Sanjivani Darshan

xi. Shri Shakti Mahim Stotra – I am not even sure if this is by Amrit Vagbhava because some pages from the beginning including Front Cover are missing and this book was scanned using a photocopy.

xii. Shri Siddha Maharahasyam ( only Version ) Last time we uploaded Shri Siddha Maharasyam and Shri Deshika Darshanam which were in one book.

xiii. Shrimad Amrit Sukti Panchashika

xiv. Shramad Amrit Sukti Manjusha

2. Two books on Parshuram and Dattatreya by Viracharya Shastri and Parkhe(Marathi) – disciplies most likely.

i.  Shri Vidyache Acharyavarya Shri Dattatreya – M S Parkhe in Marathi

ii. Bhagwan Parshuram – Shri Viracharya Shastri

3. 4 Issues of Shreya Magazine – which has some prefatory articles by Amrit Vagbhava Acharya Maharaj.

4. Five Books by Kavi Pundarik Sampurna Dutta Mishra (  Disciple AVb A , thanks to his Son Shri Narendra Mishraji of Bharatpur, Rajasthan ).

5. Two Books by Bhavani Shankar Trivedi ( Disciple AVb A ).

6.  Few Pages of Shri Svadhyaya Magazine ( thanks to Shri Dharmeshwar Mishra, Bharatpur, s/o Late Shri Govind Mishra ).

All these Books are now available at http://www.scribd.com/amritvagbhav