Catalogue of the Oriya manuscripts in the Library of the India Office / by James Fuller Blumhardt.

  • Great Britain. India Office. Library
Date:
1924
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Credit: Catalogue of the Oriya manuscripts in the Library of the India Office / by James Fuller Blumhardt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The MS. is in 20 chapters. In the printed editions it is divided into 23 chapters. Nilambara Dasa is also the author of a metrical version of the Jaimini-bharata, in 31 chapters. It also has been frequently published. There is no scribe’s colophon. Begins. acal Fcagq acal algal gag | CAICAIQ AQA BQH QQQ 1H Lil ACAI ACHIOQ CH algal cod Gat COE QSH CAIN! COIN AIA CH AGA I F I QAIA, ANIWAHSQ CAIQ! AID | alsa] Gel GaicalsialQ Qgeg il m II Ends. {Isl CSI AIDE] COI AGQ CSoIAg I ~ Gaicaisaig ad gad age n~ QAQG Qgal[ml] col ag sos GH ASIQ AMQ Ca QAQ ASO II QQ, MQIQS EMlag Ogee | 9 AMIAQ Ia Adcom AQcel II | ~~ Tey ~ 26 mMlag caigica Gqicmiaaicg quia ceqa a AACA QAQG QHAw! gel gaca Qaadi odea A ACCP NMIYQ AIA Qoa sia Fal ~~ Col QING a ae Bee wt eri 3. Palm-leafi—Foll. 135 (and 4 blank) ; 153 x 11 in. ; ll. 4, 13} in. long; dated Sunday, 28 Kakada (Sri- vana), Sana 1185, in the 52nd anka fof Virakisora Deva}, t.e. A.D. 1778. QUNDE) AG Ist Bhagavata-purana. A metrical version, commonly called Srimad- bhagavata, or simply Bhagavata. Skandha IV. By Jagannatha Dasa, The work is divided into 36 adhydyas. In the printed edition in Bengali characters (Contai, 1899) there are only 31. : > Begins. CHID QI) CACM CQI sl CAGSC | ogd ace Qisioa I Cl acd ca agcais 091 ~~ SFR GALE AQ IF II DIQ AQQ Qal aia | lam ¢ QHE AVSICS UIA IM II The following particulars regarding the life of Jagannitha Dasa are taken from the Jagannatha- charitémrita? of Divaikara Dasa, an Oriya poet of the 17th century, and also from biographical notices by Tarinicharana Ratha,? and M. M. Cha- kravarti.? Jagannatha Dasa was born at KapileSvarapura in the district of Puri. He was the son of Bhagavan Dasa, Purina-Panda (reader of the Puranas). His mother’s name was Padmavati. The exact year of his birth is unknown, but he was alive during the reign of Raja Prataparudra of Orissa (1504-1532 A.D.). Having studied the Sanskrit epics Ramayana and Mahabharata, he left his home at the age of 19 and settled at Puri, where he wrote this Oriya version of the Bhaga- vata-purana. Shortly afterwards, when Chaitanya came to Puri from Navadvipa (about 1510 A.D.) he became his disciple, and received diksha at the age of 24. Afterwards he was the means of the conversion of king Prataparudra and numerous” others to the Chaitanya faith. He established a math at Puri, and died there at the age of 60. The Srimad-bhagavata is extremely popular and has been frequently published, both in Oriya and also in Bengali characters. The following is a list of other published poems by Jagannatha Dasa 1 Printed at Cuttack, 1913. ? Utkala-sthityar itthasa, p. 8. 5 Language and Interature of Orissa, J.A.S.B., vol. Ixvii., pt. i., pp. 840-343.