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A Bibliographical Index of Mahānubhāva Works in Marathi

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

I. M. P. Raeside
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The two principal obstacles to the study of the older forms of Marathi language and literature are the shortage of definitive texts of early works and the dearth of critical bibliographies from which one might discover what texts are available and in what form they exist. Date's Marāṭhī-grantha-sūc¯ is of course invaluable for anything published before 1937, but even this work is not exhaustive and the idiosyncrasies of its arrangement according to subject-matter make it sometimes difficult to discover how many of the works of any particular early writer exist in printed form. For an unpublished work, unless one is fortunate enough to find it in the British Museum or India Office Library catalogues of Marathi MSS, one can only consult the index of a general history of Marathi literature such as V. L. Bhave's Mahārāṣṭstra-sārasvata. There one may well find numerous references to and quotations from the work in question, but only exceptionally will there be any indication of the source of these quotations. One is left to conjecture whether they are from a MS belonging to the author or from some early printed pothī that has escaped the attention of Date. On occasions the same quotation is repeated in a different part of the book with substantial variations in its text, and when a work is described but not quoted one can never be sure whether it is in fact extant or whether description and perhaps even short quotations are not taken from some intermediate secondary source or commentary.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , October 1960 , pp. 464 - 507
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1960

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References

1 Bhave, V. L., Mahārāṣṭra-sārasvata, 4th ed., 1954, 120–1, 771–2.Google Scholar

1 The fullest account of the Mahānubhāvas in English that I know is Enthoven, R. E., The tribes and castes of Bombay, Bombay, 1920–1922, II, 427–33.Google Scholar

1 I should like to express my thanks to Professor V. B. Kolte for his kindness in clarifying certain points by correspondence.

2 There is also a considerable body of Mahānubhāva writing in Hindi and Sanskrit. I have included the Skt. works of the earliest writers and a few other Skt. texts which have a direct connexion with one or more of the Marathi works.

3 I have found no trace of any Mahānubhāva MSS outside India, nor do any appear in the published catalogues of Indian libraries.

4 i.e. those discussed or even mentioned in passing by a modern scholar. I could not include all the works mentioned in the published Mahānubhāva histories (Anvauasthaḷa, Smṛtisthaḷa, Vṛddhācāra, etc.) without swelling the list to alarming proportions.

1 cf. the numerous works with the same title attributed to different Bhīṣmācāryas; Sūcī, 19.Google Scholar

2 Kolte, , Bhāskara., 5.Google Scholar

1 For a short account of the lives of these two men see Mone, M. S., Marāṭhī bhāṣece vyākaraṇakāra va vyākaraṇa-prabandhakāra, Poona, 1927, 79–83.Google Scholar

2 Here and in the bibliography itself the abbreviations BM, IO, and SOAS in square brackets after the title of a work indicate that the work can be found at the British Museum, the India Office Library, or the School of Oriental and African Studies respectively.

1 Nene (Siddhānta., intr., 9) is probably mistaken in distinguishing Murāribāsa (Kavīś-varāmnāya) and Murārī Vidvāṃsa. Cf. Tul., 938, 956. However, there are too many Murāris to be certain of anything.

2 There are supposed to be two Nāgāisās, one being a niece of Bhāskara and the other, Nātanāgāisā, a grand-daughter of Nāgadeva. Cf. Kolte, , Bhāskara., 28.Google Scholar Bhave (773) does not distinguish the two, but the list of works that he attributes to his Nāgambā are so similar to those given to Bhāskara's Nāgāisā in Anvayasthaḷa 2 that clearly only one author is involved. Nātanāgāisā must be assumed to have produced nothing.

3 See 244. Ṛddhipūra-varṇana 2, Note, for doubts about this date.

4 Deshpande, Y. K., however, (Pang., II, 769)Google Scholar says that Navarasa Nārāyaṇa was the śiṣya of Śārangadhara Bhojane. This contradicts his own statement in MMV, 56, and has been ignored by Tulpule.

5 For a discussion of this date see 130. Jnānaprabodha, Note.