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IO SAN 1681a

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032-003720044
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IO SAN 1681a
Title:
Meghamālā
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
foll. 43
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Sanskrit
Scripts:
Devanagari
Start Date:
1798
End Date:
1798
Date Range:
1798
Era:
CE
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IO SAN 1681a

Meghamālā

Contents

Language(s): Sanskrit

Title: Meghamālā

a course of meteorological observations on clouds and rain, and astrological predictions derived from the form and colour of clouds, and their appearance in different seasons.

In the colophons of the Oxford Ms. (Hultsch Coll.) collated by Dr. Macdonell, the treatise is throughout called Raudrī Meghamālā (iti śrīraudrīmeghamālāyāṃ ॰), in the present Ms. the same title (or rather Raudrimeghamālā) is given to it in the colophons on fol. 24r and from fol. 28v; whilst on the others it is either called (śrī-Maghādevakṛtā, fol. 4r) Māheśvarī Meghamālā, or simply Meghamālā. According to Oxford Ms., the treatise would seem to form part of the Gargasaṃhitā.

Like Tantric works, it is composed in the form of dialogues between Śiva and Pārvatī, whilst Garga and Indra also appear as interlocutors.

Rather incorrect.

The treatise is divided into 24 sections (adhyāy, foll 13r, 40v, and throughout the Oxf. Ms.) which are not numbered in the present Ms., but are so in the Oxf. one.

At the end of ch. 17 (fol. 34v) the present Ms. gives two vernacular (Gujaratī) verses, introduced by atha bhadulivākyāṃ | which are wanting in the Oxf. Ms., and these are again followed by 3 verses introduced by garga uvāca|

While some of the Meghamālās (cf. Cat. Cat.) ascribed to different authors in the various lists of Mss. (Mahādeva, Śiva, Aindrī) will probably be found to be identical with the present treatise, the Florence Ms. (Aufrecht, Flor. Mss., no. 337) at all events seems to contain a different work.

In the Oxf. Ms. the text seems to proceed somewhat further, its final verses and colophon are different.

Incipit: nītyā tāvadamī narādhipatagaḥ pālyāḥ prajāḥ putravat tāvannītividaḥ svadharmaniratāstāvanmunīnāṃ tapaḥ | tāvanmitrakalatraputrapitaraḥ snehena tiṣṭhantvaho yāvattvaṃ prativatsaraṃ jahadhare (r. jaladhara) kṣoṇītale varṣati(?varṣasi) ||1|| f. 1v
Explicit: ॰ śucau kṛṣṇacaturthyāṃ ca utpatāchādito raviḥ | trimāsa ṛkṣasaṃyuktaṃ tadā varṣati mādhavaḥ ||691|| kṛṣṇacaturdaśyāṃ tuṣārānna vipātayet (!) iti śrīraudrimeghamālā samāptā || saṃvat 1855 f. 42r

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: foll. 43
Dimensions (leaf): 24 × 9.5 cm.
Dimensions (written): 18.5 × 6.5 cm.
Foliation:

modern 1-41 (fol. 42 is not marked and 37 is passed on), Devanāgarī 1-43.

Condition

Good

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 8

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1798

Provenance and Acquisition

H.T. Colebrooke

Availability

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Surrogates

microfilm IOL 256

Bibliography