A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts, Madras
by M. Seshagiri Sastri | 1901 | 1,488,877 words
These pages represent "A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts of the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library, Madras"—a scholarly work that systematically details the vast collection of Sanskrit manuscripts held by the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library in Madras, now Chennai, India. The catalogue serves as an essential ...
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THE SANSKRIT MANUSCRIPTS. No. 7 48. yogasikhopanisat . YOGASIKHOPANISAD. Page, 1. Lines, 7 or. a page. Begins on fol. 58 a of the MS. described under No. 285. - Complete. This version of the Upanisad is different from the last. Beginning : End: atha yogasikham pravaksyami sarvajnanesu cottamam | yada tu dhyayate mantram gatrakampo'tha jayate || asanam padmakam badhva yaccanyadapi rocate | nasikagre drstim kuryat hastau padau ca samyutau || manassarvatra samgrhya onkaram tatra cintayet | punyametat samasadya samprapya kathitam maya | labdhva yogo'tha budhyeta prasannam paramesthinam || janmantarasahasresu yada ksinam tu kilbisam | tada pasyati yogena samsaracchedanam mahat || Colophon :- iti yogasakhopanisatsamapta || No. 749. rahasyopanisat RAHASYOPANISAD. Pages, 9. Lines, 20 on a page. Begins on fol. 1006 of the MS. described under No. 250. Complete. 533 Siva teaches to Suka the four Mahavakyas - (1) prajnanam brahma (2) aham brahmasmi ( 3 ) tattvamasi (4) ayamatma brahma - taken from certain Upanisada belonging respectively to the four Vedas, together with the Sadangas required for their Japa or silent meditative repetition, and the Upanisad concludes by saying that Suka became a Jivanmukta as the result of the teachings so received at the hands of Siva.