Descriptive Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts In Madras Vol 01 Part 01

SR No.: 020674
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: M Sheshgiri Shastri
Publisher: Government Press Madras
Publication Year: 1901
Total Pages: 118
Language: English
Classification: Catalogue
File Size: 6 MB

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THE SANSKRIT MANUSCRIPTS.
This is an apocryphal hymu mentioned by Professor Max Müller in the Preface to his Rgveda, Vol. II. It is added at the end of a manuscript consulted hy him after the 12th Varga of the 8th Adhyāya of the 2nd Aștaka.
Then follows the last hymn of the 12th Varga, the 13th, 14th and 15th Vargas of the 8th Adhyāya of the 2nd Astaka. The 11th and 12th Vargas contain hymns to be rocited on hearing any unpleasant cries of birds as stated in the commentary. They are also recited in the marriage ceremony on the occasion of the bride going to the father-in-law's house and are called Sumangala Säkta. They are addressed to the bird Kapiiñjara, a kind of partridge, which is supposed to represent the god Siva and Indra, and are to be recited with the other passages. The apocryphal passage beginning with a faz 197077: is addressed to the same bird कपिञ्जर.
(3) contains a Khila or apocryphal hymn called Rātrisūkta which is printed in the Preface to Vol. VI. Rgvēda, by Profossor Max Miller. The passage occurs at the end of X, 127 in two of the manuscripts consulted by him, This Sūkta is a hymn addressed to the Night deity and is called Rātrisūkta and, according to the quotation made from the Araṇyaka, should be recited at a sacrifice for removing the effects of cvil dreams. It is referred to also in Asva-Grihya Paris., 1. The text in the manuscript under notice is slightly different from what is printed by him. After the 4th Rk, occurs T a uri Agat which is the 12th in the text printed by him. The next hymn is gaa94 art, which occurs as the 9th in the printed text. Then follow the hymns Grig' tag and Trail to STFH14T: which are the 13th and 14th in the latter text with which the Sūkta ends. But the text in the manuscript is then followed by the following hymns, 379 VII, 104–22; KTIVÌ TA IV, 3–14; if I miga I, 133–5; để CHIH, 36
aaa, Bartů zaht. After this occur the five hymns of the Sukta