Sharngadhara-paddhati
Sharngadhara-paddhati (
The text is of interest as containing an account of
Authorship and date
The Sharngadhara-paddhati (literally "Sharngadhara's Guidebook"[1]) was compiled by Sharngadhara in 1363. This Sharngadhara appears to be same as the Sharngadhara mentioned in a prashasti (eulogistic inscription) as the son of Damodara and the grandson of Raghavadeva, the royal preceptor of Hammirabhupati of Shakambhari. Hammirabhupati can be identified with the Chahamana king Hammiradeva, a descendant of the Shakambhari Chahamanas. Hammiradeva (and therefore, his preceptor Raghavadeva) lived in the late 13th century, so it is conceivable that Raghavadeva's grandson Sharngadhara was alive in 1363.[2] Another text titled Sharngadhara-Samhita is attributed to Sharngadhara, but it is not clear if he was same as the author of Sharngadhara-paddhati: the author of Sharngadhara-Samhita does not provide any information about himself, except his name.[3]
Sharngadhara, who was a poet himself, often states the names of the poets and works against the verses included in his anthology. However, he attributes some of the verses to "somebody". Some of the poets mentioned by Sharngadhara, such as Govinda-raja-deva, are otherwise unknown. Sharngadhara attributes several verses to more than one poets, and two verses to more than two poets. According to an analysis by H. D. Sharma (1937), the anthology mentions the names of 282 authors; another analysis by J. B. Chaudhuri (1941), counts 271 authors and 31 works.[4]
Contents
The Sharngadhara-paddhati is one of the best known collections of the
Editions
A verse in the Sharngadhara-paddhati states that the anthology includes 6300 verses.[4] However, the now-extant part of the anthology contains only 4689 verses, divided into 163 sections (each called a paddhati).[2]
The 18th century anthology Brihat-Sharngadhara-paddhati (
An edition of the text (The Paddhati Of Sarngadhara, Volume I), edited by Peter Peterson, was published in 1888. It is not a
References
- ^ Damon Zacharias Lycourinos 2012, p. 190.
- ^ a b c d Ludwik Sternbach 1974, p. 17.
- ^ K. R. Srikanthamurthy 2005, pp. 100–111.
- ^ a b c Ludwik Sternbach 1974, p. 18.
- ^ James Mallinson 2011, p. 772.
Sources
- Damon Zacharias Lycourinos (2012). Occult Traditions. Numen Books. ISBN 978-0-9871581-3-0.
- ISBN 978-90-04-27128-9.
- K. R. Srikanthamurthy (2005). Biographical History of Indian Medicine: Pictorial. Chaukhambha Orientalia.
- Ludwik Sternbach (1974). Subhasita, Gnomic and Didactic Literature. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-01546-2.
External links
- The Paddhati of Sarngadhara : a Sanskrit Anthology (1888), edited by Peter Peterson. Another scan, Google Books.
- (Incomplete) Manuscript from Chunilal Gandhi Vidyabhavan