Mantrabhāgavata, 1785.
मन्त्रभागवत

Format:

• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• Nīlakaṇṭhabhaṭṭa, active 17th century.

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

• Puranas. Bhāgavatapurāṇa.
• Hindu mantras.

Genre:

• commentaries
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
• Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (41 leaves) : paper ; 13 x 29 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 751

Other Title:

Mantrabhāgavatavyākhyā.

Place of Publication:

• 1785.
• १७८५.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Author named Nīlakaṇṭha Cathurdhara son of Govinda (f. 41r).

Summary:

Reading and commentary of the Bhāgavatapurāṇa employing verses taken and arranged from the Ṛgveda to reveal its hidden meaning; there are relatively few manuscripts of this text; this is one of three texts from a genre known as Mantrarahasyaprakāśikā by Nīlakaṇṭha. The text opens with commentary and the Vedic mantras are then surrounded by commentary throughout most of rest of the text (f. 5r-41r).

Notes:

• Title from title page (f. 41v); alternate title Mantrabhāgavatavyākhyā from colophon (f. 41r).
• Written in 7-14 lines per leaf.
• 41 leaves foliated 1-41, lower right verso.
• Colophon: iti śrīmat tad avāksapramāṇamaryādā dhuraṃdharacaturddharavaṃśāvataṃśagoviṃdasurisūnoḥ nīlakaṃṭhasya kṛtau svoddhaṭatamaṃtrabhāgavatavyākhyāyāṃ maṃtrarahasyaprakāśikāyāṃ madhurākāṃḍaścaturthaḥ // śrīsadāśivojavatisaṃvata 1842 vaiśākhakṛṣṇa 12 vāravudhaḥ śubhaṃbhavatu ghṛṇāśaṃkāspṛhālajjājigu[?]ācetipaṃcamī // kulaṃjāti tathāśīlaṃ aṣṭau pāśāḥ prakītitāḥ pāśavaddho bhavejīvaḥ pādāmuktasadāśivaḥ (f. 41r).
• Dated Saturday, June 4, 1785 (saṃvat 1842) (f. 41r).
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red; red accents on Vedic verses; double vertical margin lines on two folios (f. 1-2).
• Non-Latin script record.

Cited in:

Listed in H. I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 3333 (UP 751).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 751

OCLC:

762145893